Noun: anaphor
| Singular | anaphor |
| Plural | anaphors; anaphora |
Sample Sentences
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Thus far, we have established that each other is an NP [noun phrase] which functions as a reciprocal anaphor requiring to take its reference from some antecedent elsewhere in the sentence, and that themselves is an NP which functions as a reflexive anaphor which also requires an antecedent to take its reference from. [1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 117:]
Nouns inflected like anaphor
peraeopod,
pleopod,
autonomous okrug,
cadaver,
trehantiri,
cataphor,
bhaji,
okrug,
tuath,
penni,
phasm,
starr,
anaphor,
pseudepigraph,
souflaki,
souvlaki,
endoplasm,
menologem,
atrament,
exopod, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Back-formation from anaphora.