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

Related terms

• anastrophic
• anastrophism

Translations

switching in the syntactical order of words

• Catalan: anàstrofe f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倒裝 (zh), 倒装 (zh) (dàozhuāng), 倒裝句 (zh), 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 (とうち, tōchi), 倒置法 (とうちほう, tōchihō)
• 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

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Noun

anastrophe f (plural anastrophes)

1. anastrophe