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aneponymous

aneponymous adjective: lacking a surname or epithet.

Adjective

aneponymous (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a surname or epithet.
    • William of Conches's Dragmaticon was initially published credited to the author "William Aneponymous", since the editor didn't know which of the many Guillaumes writing about philosophy at the time in France was responsible for the work.
    • It has been suggested that perhaps the author was the monk Gregory Aneponymous.2010, Katerina Ierodiakonou et al., “Early Byzantine Philosophy”, in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume II, page 862

Origin of aneponymous

From Latin aneponymus under influence from eponymous, from an- (“un-: not, lacking”) + eponymus (“surnamed, distinguished by an epithet”). Equivalent to an- + eponymous.

Questions about aneponymous

What does aneponymous mean?
Aneponymous means lacking a surname or epithet.
What part of speech is aneponymous?
Aneponymous is an adjective.

Words near aneponymous in the dictionary

  1. anephric
  2. anepigraph
  3. anepigraphic
  4. anepimeron
  5. anepisternum
  6. aneponymous
  7. anergasia
  8. anergasias
  9. anergastic
  10. anergetic
  11. anergia

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