hyperbaton

Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈpɜːbətɒn/

hyperbaton (plural hyperbatons or hyperbata)

2. (grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.

   Synonyms: anastrophe, inversion

   • c. 100, Longinus, chapter XXII, in H. L. Havell, transl., On the Sublime, published 1890:

     In real life we often see a man under the influence of rage, or fear, begin a sentence, and then swerve aside into some inconsequent parenthesis, and then again double back to his original statement Now the figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion.

4. (rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.

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Internationalism (compare English hyperbaton), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhyperbɑton/,
• Rhymes: -ɑton
• Syllabification^(key): hy‧per‧ba‧ton
• Hyphenation^(key): hy‧per‧ba‧ton

hyperbaton

1. (poetry) hyperbaton