different between anarthrousness vs anarthrous

English

Etymology

anarthrous +? -ness

Noun

anarthrousness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being anarthrous.

English

Etymology

an- +? arthrous, from Ancient Greek ?????? (árthron, “joint; grammatical article”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æ?n?????s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æ?n?????s/
• Hyphenation: an?arth?rous

Adjective

anarthrous (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Not having an article (especially of Greek nouns).
   • 1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, ?ISBN, page 68:

     We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos.
2. (linguistics) Not having a determiner.

   • 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'.

   Nouns indicating status often appear in anarthrous noun phrases, ie, as bare nouns.

3. (biology, of a limb) Not having joints.
4. (biology, of an organism) Not having legs, wings, or other limbs.

Derived terms

• anarthrously
• anarthrousness

Related terms

• anarthria
• anarthric

See also

• bare noun