anecdote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 17ᵗʰ c., from French anecdote, from Ancient Greek ἀνέκδοτος (anékdotos, “accounts unpublished”), from ἀν- (an-, “not, un-”) + ἔκδοτος (ékdotos, “published”), from ἐκδίδωμι (ekdídōmi, “I publish”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”).
Virtually identical cognates in other European languages – French anecdote, German Anekdote, Spanish anécdota, among others.
Inflected forms:
form: anecdotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anecdota
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anecdoton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anecdotum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anecdotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anecdoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: anecdoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: anecdoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: anecdota
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: anecdoton
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: anecdotum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: tell an anecdote
relate a short anecdote
Like all travellers, he is full of anecdote, and has at his command the rarest news of the time. […] Generous, convivial, and full of anecdote, the mercantile agent is a good companion, and his conversation never fails to make glad and jocund the society of that otherwise dullest of places, an English stage coach.
gloss: An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A previously untold secret account of an incident.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To tell anecdotes (about).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]
Bob anecdoted the circus he and Jimmy had seen that afternoon.
Derived words: anecdotage
anecdotal
anecdotalism
anecdotally
anecdotard
anecdotarian
anecdoter
anecdotic
anecdotical
anecdotish
anecdotist
anecdotive
anecdotographer
the plural of anecdote is not data
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: anekdotë
lang: Arabic
word: نَادِرَة
roman: nādira
lang: Arabic
word: أُطْرُوفَة
roman: ʔuṭrūfa
lang: Arabic
word: أُفْكُوهَة
roman: ʔufkūha
lang: Arabic
word: طُرْفَة
roman: ṭurfa
lang: Arabic
word: فُكَاهَة
roman: fukāha
lang: Arabic
word: لَطِيفَة
roman: laṭīfa
lang: Armenian
word: անեկդոտ
roman: anekdot
lang: Azerbaijani
word: anekdot
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lətifə
lang: Belarusian
word: анекдо́т
roman: anjekdót
lang: Belarusian
word: анэкдо́т
roman: anekdót
lang: Bulgarian
word: анекдо́т
roman: anekdót
lang: Catalan
word: anècdota
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 逸事
roman: yìshì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 軼事 /轶事
roman: yìshì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 逸話 /逸话
roman: yìhuà
lang: Czech
word: anekdota
lang: Danish
word: anekdote
lang: Dutch
word: anekdote
lang: Esperanto
word: anekdoto
lang: Estonian
word: anekdoot
lang: Finnish
word: anekdootti
lang: Finnish
word: kasku
lang: Finnish
word: juttu
lang: Finnish
word: tarina
lang: French
word: anecdote
lang: Georgian
word: ანეკდოტი
roman: aneḳdoṭi
lang: German
word: Anekdote
lang: Greek
word: ανέκδοτο
roman: anékdoto
lang: Hebrew
word: אַנֵקְדוֹטָה
roman: anekdóta
lang: Hungarian
word: anekdota
lang: Icelandic
word: atvikssaga
lang: Icelandic
word: anekdóta
lang: Ido
word: anekdoto
lang: Indonesian
word: anekdot
lang: Italian
word: aneddoto
lang: Japanese
word: 逸話
roman: itsuwa
lang: Kazakh
word: анекдот
roman: anekdot
lang: Kazakh
word: күлкілі әңгіме
roman: külkılı äñgıme
lang: Korean
word: 일화
roman: ilhwa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: анекдот
roman: anekdot
lang: Latvian
word: anekdote
lang: Lithuanian
word: anekdotas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Anekdot
lang: Macedonian
word: анегдота
roman: anegdota
lang: Malay
word: anekdot
lang: Mongolian
word: онигоо
roman: onigoo
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: anekdote
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: anekdote
lang: Persian
word: لطیفه
roman: latife
lang: Polish
word: anegdota
lang: Portuguese
word: anedota
lang: Romanian
word: anecdotă
lang: Russian
word: анекдо́т
roman: anekdót
lang: Russian
word: эпизо́д
roman: epizód
lang: Russian
word: слу́чай
roman: slúčaj
lang: Russian
word: заба́вная исто́рия
roman: zabávnaja istórija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: naidheachd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: анегдо̀та
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: anegdòta
lang: Slovak
word: anekdota
lang: Slovene
word: anekdota
lang: Spanish
word: anécdota
lang: Spanish
word: chascarrillo
lang: Swedish
word: anekdot
lang: Tajik
word: латифа
roman: latifa
lang: Tatar
word: мәзәк
roman: mäzäk
lang: Thai
word: เรื่องขำขัน
roman: rʉ̂ʉang-kǎm-kǎn
lang: Thai
word: ชวนหัว
roman: chuuan-hǔua
lang: Turkish
word: anekdot
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فقره
roman: fıkra
lang: Ukrainian
word: анекдо́т
roman: anekdót
lang: Uzbek
word: anekdot
lang: Uzbek
word: latifa
lang: Vietnamese
word: giai thoại
lang: Yiddish
word: אַנעקדאָט
roman: anekdot