- antique (adj.)
- 1530s, "aged, venerable," from Middle French antique "old" (14c.), from Latin antiquus (later anticus) "ancient, former, of olden times; old, long in existence, aged; venerable; old-fashioned," from PIE *anti in sense of "before" (see ante) + *okw- "appearance" (see eye (n.)). Originally pronounced in English like its parallel antic, but French pronunciation and spelling were adopted from c. 1700.
- antique (n.)
- "an old and collectible thing," 1771, from antique (adj.).
- antique (v.)
- "to give an antique appearance to," 1896, from antique (adj.). Related: Antiqued; antiquing.
