cataphor

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cataphor

/ˈkatəfə/ UK
/-ˌfɔː/ UK
/ˈkætəfɚ/ US
/-ˌfɔɹ/ US

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From Latin cataphora (“a coma”), from Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a bringing down, a lethargic attack”).

noun cataphors · cataphora

countable, uncountable Semicoma.
countable, uncountable Somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness.
countable, uncountable The use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer ahead to another word in a sentence. Yet, all psycholinguistic studies, syntax processing, logic based grammars, poetry parsing and even formal parser construction, indicate that resolving anaphor is much easier than cataphor; we therefore collect an additional code point for any cataphor.

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"cataphor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cataphor. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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cataphor. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cataphor

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"cataphor." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cataphor.

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@misc{cataphor_2026,
  title = {cataphor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cataphor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}