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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μεταφράζω (metaphrázō) + -σις (-sis).
Noun
μετάφρασις • (metáphrasis) f (genitive μεταφράσεως); third declension
- translation
- paraphrase
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “μετάφρασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μετάφρασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μετάφρασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μετάφρασις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften