Anarthrous

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 10 19:11:03 EDT 2002


At 3:43 PM -0500 9/10/02, virgilsalvage1 wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>    Anarthrous....what is the origin and meaning of this term?  What does it
>indicate? Why is the term not found in...Smyths Grammar or Brunner and
>Funk's, yet the term can be found in Zodhiates..Wallace, and Robertson ?

It's compounded from the Greek word for the article ARQRON and the alpha
privative, meaning "without the article." For all my own study of classical
Greek grammar I have to confess that I'd never run into the term
"anarthrous" until I saw it in NT grammar discussions. It's not that the
classical grammars don't talk about nouns without articles--they just
evidently didn't feel the need of a Greek-derived adjective to describe
them.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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