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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).
Pronunciation
Noun
antístrofe f (plural antístrofes)
- antistrophe (in Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left)
- (rhetoric) antistrophe (the repetition of words in an inverse order)