单词 | prothysteron |
释义 | prothysteronn. Grammar and Rhetoric. = hysteron proteron n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > inversion > unusual or abnormal hysterology1555 hysteron proteron1555 hysterosis1600 prothysteron1886 1886 W. Leaf in tr. Homer Iliad I. v. 153 (note) Ἑλεῖν (‘to kill’ as usual) is put first by a slight ‘prothysteron’. 1907 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 28 105 Examples from Greek, Latin and German of metalepsis, prothysteron, syllepsis, schema ἀπὸ κοινοῦ, and a study of Porfyrius' Syrinx. 1993 Poetics Today 14 612 The literally preposterous order of Pindaric narrative is an expression at the level of the account of the Homeric trope of prothysteron, or hysteron proteron. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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