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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “to change”) + -η (-ē, abstract noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ta.bo.lɛ̌ː/ → /me.ta.βoˈli/ → /me.ta.voˈli/
Noun
μετᾰβολή • (metabolḗ) f (genitive μετᾰβολῆς); first declension
- change, mutation, transformation
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “μεταβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μεταβολή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μεταβολή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- alteration idem, page 25.
- change idem, page 123.
- departure idem, page 211.
- fluctuation idem, page 330.
- inversion idem, page 457.
- reaction idem, page 675.
- reversal idem, page 710.
- revolution idem, page 711.
- transformation idem, page 888.
- transition idem, page 889.
- turn idem, page 901.
- turning idem, page 902.
- variation idem, page 944.
- variety idem, page 944.
- vicissitude idem, page 950.