Anecdota Definition

noun

Plural form of anecdoton.

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Plural form of anecdotum.

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Other Word Forms of Anecdota

Noun

Singular:
anecdota
Plural:
anecdotae

Origin of Anecdota

  • From Ancient Greek, per anecdote, but retaining the nominative-plural case ending -a (but in the alternative-spelling sense, misinterpreted as a singular case ending).

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Anecdota Sentence Examples

  • Bentley's Plautine Emendations were published by Sonnenschein partly in his edition of the Captivi (1880), partly in the Anecdota oxoniensia series (1883).

  • The character which Procopius gives to the jurist, even if touched by personal spite, is entitled to some credence, because it is contained in the Histories and not in the scandalous and secret Anecdota.

  • Both are to be found in the 2nd volume of Laud's Anecdota syriaca.

  • The entire text of the London MS. was published by Land in the third volume of his Anecdota syriaca; and there is now an English translation by Hamilton and Brooks (London, 1899), and a German one by Ahrens and Kruger (Leipzig, 1899).

  • Paul the Persian, a courtier of Khosrau Anosharwan, dedicated to the king a treatise on logic which has been published from a London MS. by Land in the 4th volume of his Anecdota.

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Words Starting With

AANANE

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ATAOTA

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