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anastrophe

N การ วาง กลับกัน  kan-wang-kab-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ANASTROPHE, ANASTROPHY

n.[Gr. a conversion or inversion. ] In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the natural order of words; as saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ANASTROPHE

A *nas "tro *phe, n. Etym: [Gr. (Rhet. & Gram. )

 

Defn: An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

anastrophe

a nas tro phe |əˈnastrəfē əˈnæstrəfi | noun Rhetoric the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Greek anastrophē turning back, from ana- back + strephein to turn.

 

Oxford Dictionary

anastrophe

anastrophe |əˈnastrəfi | noun [ mass noun ] Rhetoric the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Greek anastrophē turning back , from ana- back + strephein to turn .

 

Duden Dictionary

Anastrophe

An a s t ro phe, Ana stro phe Substantiv, feminin Sprachwissenschaft , die |An a strophe |die Anastrophe; Genitiv: der Anastrophe, Plural: die Anastrophen griechisch-lateinisch Umkehrung der gewöhnlichen Wortstellung, besonders die Stellung der Präposition hinter dem dazugehörenden Substantiv z. B. zweifelsohne für ohne Zweifel