anarthrous
English
Etymology
an- + arthrous, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint; grammatical article”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æˈnɑːθɹəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /æˈnɑɹθɹəs/
- Hyphenation: an‧arth‧rous
Adjective
anarthrous (not comparable)
- (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
- 1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 68:
- (linguistics) Not having a determiner.
- 2007, Michael T. Wescoat, “Preposition-determiner contractions: an analysis in optimality-theoretic lexical-functional grammar with lexical sharing”, in Proceedings of LFG07, 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'.
- Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.
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- (biology, of a limb) Not having joints.
- (biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.
Derived terms
- anarthrously
- anarthrousness
Related terms
- anarthria
- anarthric
See also
- bare noun