anekdota

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anekdota f

1. joke

• This is a false friend.

anekdoto +‎ -a.

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anekdota (accusative singular anekdotan, plural anekdotaj, accusative plural anekdotajn)

1. anecdotal
   • Sten Johansson, “Mankas io,” review of Johan Hammond Rosbach, La mirinda eliksiro,

     liaj noveloj plej ofte estas leĝeraj, humuraj, konstruitaj ĉirkaŭ simpla anekdota kerno.

     his short stories are most often light, humorous, built around a simple anecdotal kernel.

anékdota

1. anecdote

 anekdota on Hungarian Wikipedia

Internationalism (ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀνέκδοτος (anékdotos, “accounts unpublished”), see more at English anecdote), via German Anekdote and French anecdote.

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• Hyphenation: anek‧do‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

anekdota (plural anekdoták)

1. anecdote (short account of a real incident or person)

   Synonym: adoma (although this features entirely fictional, abstract characters, while an anecdote is linked to existing historical figures)

• anekdota in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• anekdota in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

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anekdota f (relational adjective anekdotický, diminutive anekdotka)

1. anecdote

• “anekdota”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025