anno urbis conditæ (L.), in the year the city [Rome] was built (753 B.C.).
annus mirabilis (L.), year of wonders.
anonyma (Gr.), a showy woman of light fame whom one is not supposed to know.
Antar, the hero of an Arabian romance based on the exploits of Antara ben Shaddād;—‛anterī (pl. ‛anātira), a reciter of romances in Egypt.
ante Agamemnona. See vixere fortes.
ante bellum (L.), before the war.
ante lucem (L.), before light.
ante meridiem (L.), before noon.
Anteros (Gr.), a deity capable of resisting Eros or love.
antibarbarus (Late L.), a name applied to a collection of words and locutions to be avoided in the classical usage of a language.