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pseudoarticle

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + article.

  1. derived from *h₂értus✻
  2. derived from artus
  3. derived from articulus — “a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”
  4. derived from article
  5. inherited from article
  6. formed as pseudoarticle — “pseudo- + article”

Definitions

  1. A false or nonexistent article (piece of writing).

    • Of the 750,000 internauts who have played the game, only 59 percent have succeeded in identifying authentic papers. […] Proof that these pseudoarticles can occasionally fool the most well-informed specialists.

  2. A joint-like constriction that does not articulate.

    • All new species can be differentiated from the other species of the genus by the number of pseudo-articles in basitibia IV, the presence/absence of median eyes, and the shape of the female gonopod.

  3. A morpheme that takes the form of an article despite not being one.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoarticle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA