anarthrous

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English

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Etymology

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From an- +‎ arthrous, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, joint; grammatical article).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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anarthrous (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Not having an article (especially of Greek nouns).
    • 1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 68:
      We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos.
    • 2009, Daniel B. Wallace, Granville Sharp's Canon and Its Kin: Semantics and Significance, →ISBN, page 252:
      Proper names are usually anarthrous (since they need no article to be definite), except in cases of anaphora
  2. (linguistics) Not having a determiner.
    Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.
    • 2007, Michael T. Wescoat, “Preposition-determiner contractions: an analysis in optimality-theoretic lexical-functional grammar with lexical sharing”, in Proceedings of LFG07[1], retrieved 2013-10-10:
      Meigret (1888), treats French P-D contractions as simple prepositions governing anarthrous objects. Associating determiners with NP, Abeillé et al. consider the determinerless objects to be instances of N'.
  3. (biology, of a limb) Not having joints.
  4. (biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.

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