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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνώμᾰλος (anṓmalos, “uneven, irregular, anomalous”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
anōmalos (feminine anōmala, neuter anōmalon); first/second-declension adjective (Greek-type)
- (grammar) deviating from the general rule, irregular, anomalous, abnormal, exceptional
Declension
New Latin declension:
First/second-declension adjective (Greek-type).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “ănōmălŏs (-us), a, on (um)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ănōmălus, a, um, et ănōmălos, on in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “130/3”
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “anomalus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 46/2