| 释义 |
athematic, a.|æ-, eɪθɪˈmætɪk|
[f. a- 14 + thematic a.]
1. Gram. Of verb-forms: having suffixes attached immediately to the verb-stem without a connecting (thematic) vowel; also used of nouns (see quot. 1959). Hence used of languages which have such verb-forms.
1894W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. viii. 454 In Latin almost every athematic verb becomes thematic in 1 Sg. Pres. Ind. 1959A. Campbell O.E. Gram. xi. 255 Place-names of Celtic origin seem frequently to adopt the forms of the athematic nouns in OE, having gen. sg. in -e, otherwise no endings, e.g. a. and d.s. Cent Kent.
2. Mus. Lacking, or not composed of, deliberate themes.
1935Musical Times Oct. 942/1 The three main forces of the universe..are each symbolised, not by themes—because the music [of Hábas] is athematic—but by the character of the thematic material and the orchestration. 1959Listener 22 Oct. 704/2 The symphony is described by the composer [sc. Gerhard] as ‘athematic’ (the literal antonym of ‘thematic’), from which it is obvious that each part, while indispensable to the whole, is meaningless when divorced from its context. 196020th Cent. Nov. 460 Webern..adopted Schönberg's serial technique to organize this athematic music. |