anthimeria
English
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editEtymology
editBased on Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + μέρος (méros, “part”) with non-etymological ⟨h⟩.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ænθɪˈmɪəɹiə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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anthimeria (usually uncountable, plural anthimerias)
- (rhetoric) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.
- 2014 May 13, James Harbeck, “How advertisers trick your brain by turning adjectives into nouns”, in The Week[2]:
- Consider some other examples of anthimeria using slightly different types of words in the noun slot: Crystal's slogans "Full of Wow" and "Full of Yum," and the popular use of fail as a noun, as in "an epic fail" or "buckets of fail."
Translations
editthe use of a word as if it were a member of another word class
See also
edit- conversion, zero derivation (linguistics)
References
edit- Corbett, Edward P. J., Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971
Further reading
edit- anthimeria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia