anastrophe

See also: Anastrophe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ).

Noun

anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)

1. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

   Synonyms: inversion, hyperbaton

   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 43:

     Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
     Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.]

   • 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon‎^[1]:

     […] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.

Related terms

• anastrophic
• anastrophism

Translations

switching in the syntactical order of words

• Catalan: anàstrofe f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倒裝／倒装 (zh) (dàozhuāng), 倒裝句／倒装句 (zh) (dàozhuāngjù)

• French: anastrophe (fr) f
• German: Anastrophe (de) f, Inversion (de) f
• Greek: αναστροφή (el) f (anastrofí)
• Irish: anastróf f
• Italian: anastrofe (it) f
• Japanese: 倒置 (ja) (とうち, tōchi), 倒置法 (とうちほう, tōchihō)
• Polish: inwersja (pl) f, metateza f, przekładnia (pl) f, przestawnia f, szyk przestawny m
• Portuguese: anástrofe f
• Russian: анастро́фа (ru) f (anastrófa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анастро́фа f

  Roman: anastrófa (sh) f

• Spanish: anástrofe f
• Tagalog: kabaligtaran

See also

• anastrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

anastrophe f (plural anastrophes)

1. anastrophe

Further reading

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