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单词 anaptotic
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anaptoticadj.

Brit. /ˌanəpˈtɒtɪk/, U.S. /ˌænəpˈtɑdɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: ana- prefix, Greek πτωτικός.
Etymology: < ana- prefix + Hellenistic Greek πτωτικός belonging to case < πτωτός liable to fall ( < the stem of ancient Greek πίπτειν to fall (see ptosis n.) + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix, after ancient Greek πτῶσις fall, case (see ptosis n.). Compare aptotic adj.Compare German anaptotisch (1852 or earlier).
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.
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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).
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