hipérbato
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Portuguese
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: hi‧pér‧ba‧to
Noun
hipérbato m (plural hipérbatos)
- (grammar) hyperbaton (inversion of the usual order of words or phrases)
Spanish
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Etymology
From Latin hyperbaton, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go, move, walk”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hipérbato m (plural hipérbatos)
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Further reading
- “hipérbato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014