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English
Etymology
From an- + arthrous, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint; grammatical article”).
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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
- (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, 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'.
- (biology, of a limb) Not having joints.
- (biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.
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