antistrophe
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).
Noun
editantistrophe (countable and uncountable, plural antistrophes)
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the master of the servant and the servant of the master. |
- In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
- The lines of this part of the choral song.
- (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
- (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
- Synonym: epistrophe
- The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antistrophe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editantistrophe f (plural antistrophes)
Further reading
edit- “antistrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈtis.tro.pʰeː/, [än̪ˈt̪ɪs̠t̪rɔpʰeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈtis.tro.fe/, [än̪ˈt̪ist̪rofe]
Noun
editantistrophē f (genitive antistrophēs); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun (Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | antistrophē | antistrophae |
Genitive | antistrophēs | antistrophārum |
Dative | antistrophae | antistrophīs |
Accusative | antistrophēn | antistrophās |
Ablative | antistrophē | antistrophīs |
Vocative | antistrophē | antistrophae |
Descendants
edit- Spanish: antistrofa
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