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Etymology
From Latin aneponymus under influence from eponymous, from an- (“un-: not, lacking”) + eponymus (“surnamed, distinguished by an epithet”). Equivalent to an- + eponymous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking a surname or epithet.
William of Conches's Dragmaticon was initially published credited to the author "William Aneponymous", since the editor didn't know which of the many Guillaumes writing about philosophy at the time in France was responsible for the work.
It has been suggested that perhaps the author was the monk Gregory Aneponymous.
2010, Katerina Ierodiakonou et al., “Early Byzantine Philosophy”, in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, volume II, page 862:
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la aneponymus (Translations)