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- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Hellenic*ə-
- Ancient Greekἀν- (an-)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
- Proto-Hellenic*ónomə
- Ancient Greekὄνυμα (ónuma)
- Ancient Greekἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos)
- Latinanōnymu
- Frenchanonyme
- English todayanonym
Borrowed, around 1812, from French anonyme (“anonymous person”), from the nominalization of the adjective anonyme (“anonymous”), from Latin anōnymus (adjective), from Ancient Greek ἀνώνυμος (anṓnumos, “without name”, adjective). By surface analysis, an- + -onym.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.