métaphore
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See also: metaphore
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin metaphora, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /me.ta.fɔʁ/
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Noun
[edit]métaphore f (plural métaphores)
- metaphor
- 1932, Pierre Louÿs, La Femme dans la poésie arabe, dans Archipel:
- Voila comment, dans la plupart des poèmes arabes que l’on va lire, les métaphores même les plus complexes ne quittent jamais le champ des réalités pour celui des abstractions.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “métaphore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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