métamorphose

See also: metamorphose, Metamorphose, and métamorphosé

French

Etymology

From Latin metamorphosis (“change of shape”), from Ancient Greek μεταμόρφωσις (metamórphōsis), from μετά (metá, “change”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ta.mɔʁ.foz/

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• Homophones: métamorphosent, métamorphoses
• Hyphenation: mé‧ta‧mor‧pho‧se

Noun

métamorphose f (plural métamorphoses)

1. metamorphosis

Verb

métamorphose

1. inflection of métamorphoser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “métamorphose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.