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metaphrase

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.

  1. derived from μεταφράζομαι — “consider after”

Definitions

  1. A literal, word-for-word translation.

  2. An answering phrase

    An answering phrase; repartee.

    • I'm somewhat dull still in the manly art Of phrase and metaphrase. Why, any man Can carve a score of white Loves out of snow, As Buonarroti down in Florence there, And set them on the wall in some safe shade […]

  3. To make such a literal translation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metaphrase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA