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μεταφορά̄

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταφορά̄ μεταφορᾶς

Structure: μεταφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. transference
  2. (rhetoric) metaphor, trope

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τῶν δὲ μεταφορῶν τεττάρων οὐσῶν, εὐδοκιμοῦσι μάλιστα αἱ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 82)
  • τῶν δὲ μεταφορῶν τεττάρων οὐσῶν εὐδοκιμοῦσι μάλιστα αἱ κατ’ ἀναλογίαν, ὥσπερ Περικλῆσ ἔφη τὴν νεότητα τὴν ἀπολομένην ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ οὕτωσ ἠφανίσθαι ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὥσπερ εἴ τισ τὸ ἐάρ ἐκ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ἐξέλοι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 10 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. metaphor

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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