单词 | anaptotic |
释义 | anaptoticadj. Now rare. Designating a language in which most of the inflections have disappeared by phonetic decay, their place being supplied by relational words and rules of word order. Cf. aptotic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by grammar unaccidentedc1740 resupinate1836 atactic1842 amalgamate1849 anaptotic1850 isolating1860 encapsulating1868 grammarless1868 uninflected1875 amalgamating1877 intercalative1882 postmutative1899 positional1908 1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man i. 404 It has yet to be determined whether the comparative absence (if real) of inflections has arisen from the loss of forms previously existing, or from the nondevelopment of them in toto... In the former [case] its parallel would be the English, an anaptotic language. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iii. §56 206 There have grown out of the amalgamate languages, the ‘anaptotic’ languages. 1920 Western Med. Times 40 24/2 Such languages are called anaptotic. We see the Anglo-Saxon inflection lost by contraction into the English. 1970 P. Lubin in A. Appel & C. Newman Nabokov Crit., Reminisc., Transl., & Tributes i. 194 Words cannot be cavalierly ordered in our anaptotic tongue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1850 |
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