Anecdoton
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈnɛkdətɒn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Anecdoton is a noun meaning (Grecian) Alternative spelling of anecdote.
Meaning
(Grecian) Alternative spelling of anecdote.
Example Sentences
I publish here, as elsewhere in this volume, what is not exactly an anecdoton, but a more original form of a writing already known.
While on the subject of Olympiodorus, we have a brief word to say in connection with his Scholium on 474 A, which Dr. Thompson conceives to contain an anecdoton from Heraclitus.
[…] strictly speaking, an anecdoton : the greater part of Jerome’s Notes on the Psalter has long been accessible in the Breviarium in Psalmos which appears among his printed works.
Mention should also be made of the important edition of Bale’s Index Britanniae Scriptorum, in which the late Miss Mary Bateson was his collaborator, and which appeared as an Anecdoton Oxoniense in 1902.
Word Forms
- anecdota
- anecdotum
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include epopoeia, anacreontic, anacolutha, anacolouthon, anacolouth, peripetia.
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