epistrophe

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin epistrophē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Noun

Examples
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.

epistrophe (plural epistrophes)

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.

   Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe

   Antonym: anaphora

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 75:

     Epistrophe many sentences will close
     With the same word, in verse as well as prose.

Further reading

• epistrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tro.pʰeː/, [ɛˈpɪs̠t̪rɔpʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tro.fe/, [eˈpist̪rofe]

Noun

epistrophē f (genitive epistrophēs); first declension

1. (rhetoric) a returning

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	epistrophē	epistrophae
Genitive	epistrophēs	epistrophārum
Dative	epistrophae	epistrophīs
Accusative	epistrophēn	epistrophās
Ablative	epistrophē	epistrophīs
Vocative	epistrophē	epistrophae

References

• “epistrophe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• epistrophe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.