Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesNot having an article (especially of Greek nouns).
We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos.
1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 681 more example
Proper names are usually anarthrous (since they need no article to be definite), except in cases of anaphora
2009, Daniel B. Wallace, Granville Sharp's Canon and Its Kin: Semantics and Significance, →ISBN, page 252 - not comparablehuman sciencesNot having a determiner.
Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.
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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'.
2007, Michael T. Wescoat, “Preposition-determiner contractions: an analysis in optimality-theoretic lexical-functional grammar with lexical sharing”, in Proceedings of LFG07, retrieved 10 Oct 2013 - not comparablebiologyNot having joints.
- not comparablebiologyNot having legs, wings, or other limbs.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἄρθρον“joint; grammatical article”
- Englishanarthrous
From an- + arthrous, from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint; grammatical article”).
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