epistrophe

English

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

Examples
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.^[1]

epistrophe (plural epistrophes)

(rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe

Antonym: anaphora
- 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.]
(botony) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
- 1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 82, number 2111, page 105:
  As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

epistrophē f (genitive epistrophēs); first declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

“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.