| 单词 | metalepsis |
| 释义 | metalepsis in British English (ˌmɛtəˈlɛpsɪs) nounWord forms: plural -ses (-siːz) a figurative substitution in which a concept is described by a word that is distanced from that concept by multiple, usually metonymical, links metalepsis in American English (ˌmetəˈlepsɪs) nounWord forms: plural -ses (-siz) Rhetoric the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively Derived forms metaleptic metaleptical adjective metaleptically adverb Word origin [1580–90; ‹ L ‹ Gk metálēpsis, equiv. to meta- meta- + lēp-, var. s. of lambánein to take + -sis -sis]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: academic, bomb, category, classical, scramblemeta- is a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “alongwith,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model.Other words that use the affix meta- include: metacarpus, metagenesis, metalinguistics; -sis is a suffix appearing in loanwords from Greek, where it was used to form from verbsabstract nouns of action, process, state, condition, etc. Other words that use theaffix -sis include: analysis, anamnesis, anamorphosis, prolepsis, thesisExamples of 'metalepsis' in a sentence |
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