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English
Etymology
Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (anṓnumos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (an-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónuma), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónoma, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
anonymous (comparative more anonymous, superlative most anonymous)
- (not comparable) Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species.
- Synonym: nameless
- Coordinate term: no-name
- (not comparable) Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible
an anonymous pamphlet
an anonymous subscription
anonymous author
- (not comparable) Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
- Synonyms: unidentified, unknown, unnamed
an anonymous author
an anonymous benefactor
No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.
- (comparable, figurative) Lacking individuality.
- Synonym: faceless
an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate
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Translations
wanting a name, not named and determined
- Arabic: مَجْهُول (majhūl)
- Armenian: անանուն (hy) (ananun)
- Assamese: নিনাও (ninaü)
- Belarusian: анані́мны (ananímny), бязыме́нны (bjazymjénny)
- Breton: dizanv (br)
- Bulgarian: бези́менен (bg) (bezímenen), анони́мен (bg) (anonímen)
- Catalan: anònim (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無名/无名 (zh) (wúmíng), 匿名 (zh) (nìmíng)
- Czech: bezejmenný (cs) m
- Danish: anonym (da), ukendt (da)
- Dutch: naamloos (nl), onbenoemd (nl)
- Esperanto: anonima
- Faroese: ónevndur
- Finnish: nimetön (fi)
- French: anonyme (fr)
- Galician: anónimo m
- Georgian: ანონიმური (anonimuri), უსახელო (usaxelo), სახელდაურქმეველი (saxeldaurkmeveli)
- German: namenlos (de)
- Greek: ανώνυμος (el) (anónymos)
- Ancient: ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)
- Hindi: अनाम (hi) (anām), अज्ञात (hi) (agyāt)
- Hungarian: névtelen (hu)
- Japanese: 無名 (ja) (むめいの, mumei no), 匿名の (ja) (とくめいの, tokumei no)
- Korean: 익명의 (ko) (ingmyeong'ui), 무명 (ko) (mumyeong)
- Lithuanian: bevardis
- Macedonian: бе́зимен (bézimen), анони́мен (anonímen)
- Manx: neuennymagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: anonym (no)
- Polish: bezimienny (pl) m, anonimowy (pl)
- Portuguese: anónimo (pt) (Portugal), anônimo (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: anonim (ro)
- Russian: анони́мный (ru) (anonímnyj), безымя́нный (ru) (bezymjánnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: gun urrainn
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̏нонӣман
- Roman: ȁnonīman (sh)
- Slovak: bezmenný
- Slovene: anonimen
- Spanish: anónimo (es)
- Swedish: anonym (sv), okänd (sv)
- Turkish: isimsiz (tr), adsız (tr)
- Ukrainian: аноні́мний (uk) (anonímnyj), безіме́нний (uk) (beziménnyj)
- Welsh: dienw (cy), anhysbys (cy)
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without any name (of responsible agent) acknowledged
- Albanian: paemër (sq)
- Armenian: անանուն (hy) (ananun)
- Belarusian: безыме́нны (bjezymjénny), безназо́ўны (bjeznazóŭny)
- Bulgarian: анони́мен (bg) (anonímen)
- Catalan: anònim (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 佚名 (zh) (yìmíng)
- Czech: anonymní (cs)
- Danish: anonym (da)
- Dutch: naamloos (nl), anoniem (nl)
- Esperanto: anonima, sennoma
- Finnish: nimetön (fi)
- French: anonyme (fr)
- Georgian: ანონიმური (anonimuri)
- German: anonym (de)
- Greek: ανώνυμος (el) (anónymos)
- Hebrew: אַלְמוֹנִי (he) m (almoní), אנונימי (anoními)
- Interlingua: anonyme
- Italian: anonimo (it)
- Lithuanian: bevardis
- Macedonian: бе́зимен (bézimen), анони́мен (anonímen)
- Manx: neuennymagh
- Polish: anonimowy (pl), bezimienny (pl)
- Portuguese: anónimo (pt), anônimo (pt) (Brazil)
- Romanian: anonim (ro)
- Russian: безымя́нный (ru) (bezymjánnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: gun urrainn
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̏нонӣман
- Roman: ȁnonīman (sh)
- Slovene: anonimen
- Spanish: anónimo (es)
- Swedish: anonym (sv)
- Turkish: anonim (tr), isimsiz (tr), adsız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безіме́нний (uk) (beziménnyj)
- Vietnamese: vô danh (vi), ẩn danh, nặc danh (vi)
- Welsh: dienw (cy)
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of unknown name; whose name is withheld
without consideration of prestige, title, rank or background
Translations to be checked
See also
References
- “anonymous”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “anonymous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.