adespota

发音

/əˈdɛspətə/

词形变化

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)

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词源

From New Latin adespota (“anonymous literary works”), substantivised neuter plural of the adjective adespotos (“anonymous; undedicated”, of books), from Ancient Greek ἀδέσποτος (adéspotos, “anonymous”, of rumours or writings), from ἀ- (a-, “without”, alpha privative) + δεσπότης (despótēs, “master”). Compare despot.

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