anonymously

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English anonymous

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English anonymously

From anonymous + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈnɒnəməsli/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adverb

anonymously (not comparable)

1. In an anonymous manner; without a name.
   • 2014, Joseph Brennan, 'Fandom is full of pearlclutching old ladies' : Nonnies in the online slash closet, volume 17, number 4:

     LJ’s spnanonhaven is an anon meme community where fans comment anonymously on posts related to all aspects of Supernatural fandom.

2. In an anonymous manner; without individuality.
   • 2007 October 12, Ken Johnson, “From Tibet, Art of Enlightenment”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The tapestrylike pictures have a sweetly personal poetry unlike the more anonymously stylized look of the exhibition’s other works.

Translations

in an anonymous manner

• Catalan: anònimament (ca)
• Esperanto: anonime
• Finnish: anonyymisti (fi), nimettömästi (fi)
• French: anonymement (fr)
• Galician: anonimamente
• Greek: ανώνυμα (el) (anónyma)
• Italian: anonimamente (it)
• Polish: anonimowo (pl), bezimiennie (pl)
• Portuguese: anonimamente (pt)
• Romanian: anonim (ro)
• Russian: анони́мно (ru) (anonímno)
• Serbo-Croatian: anonimno (sh)
• Spanish: anónimamente (es)
• Swedish: anonymt (sv)
• Walloon: anonimmint (wa)

References

• “anonymously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.