transfiguration

See also: Transfiguration

English

Etymology

From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

transfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural transfigurations)

1. A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
2. A change that exalts or glorifies.
3. superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.

Translations

a major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis

• Bulgarian: преобразование (bg) (preobrazovanie), метаморфоза (bg) (metamorfoza)
• German: Umgestaltung (de) f
• Hungarian: átváltozás (hu), átalakulás (hu), átalakítás (hu)
• Polish: przeobrażenie (pl) n, przekształcenie (pl) n, przemienienie (pl) n, transfiguracja f
• Portuguese: transfiguração (pt) f
• Russian: видоизменение (ru) n (vidoizmenenije), преображе́ние (ru) n (preobražénije), преобразова́ние (ru) n (preobrazovánije)
• Swedish: förvandling (sv) c
• Tagalog: malikmata (tl)

a change that exalts or glorifies

• Bulgarian: преображе́ние n (preobražénie)
• Hungarian: színeváltozás (hu)
• Russian: преображе́ние (ru) n (preobražénije)
• Tagalog: malikmata (tl)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

transfiguration f (plural transfigurations)

1. transfiguration

Further reading

• “transfiguration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.