epistrophe

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

  1. (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.      ]

References

  1. ^ The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , 1611, →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:11.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Pronunciation

Noun

epistrophē f (genitive epistrophēs); first declension

  1. (rhetoric) a returning

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

singular plural
nominative epistrophē epistrophae
genitive epistrophēs epistrophārum
dative epistrophae epistrophīs
accusative epistrophēn epistrophās
ablative epistrophē epistrophīs
vocative epistrophē epistrophae

References

  • “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.
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