apostropha

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apostrophas, apostrophât

Verb

apostropha

1. third-person singular past historic of apostropher

Latin

Alternative forms

• apostrophē

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ, literally “a turning away”), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpos.tro.pʰa/, [äˈpɔs̠t̪rɔpʰä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpos.tro.fa/, [äˈpɔst̪rofä]

Noun

apostropha f (genitive apostrophae); first declension

1. (rhetoric) apostrophe (sudden piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apostropha	apostrophae
genitive	apostrophae	apostrophārum
dative	apostrophae	apostrophīs
accusative	apostropham	apostrophās
ablative	apostrophā	apostrophīs
vocative	apostropha	apostrophae

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: apóstrofe (learned)
• → Czech: apostrofa (learned)
• → German: Apostrophe (learned)
• → Finnish: apostrofi (learned)
• → French: apostrophe (learned)
  • → English: apostrophe
  • → Romanian: apostrof
  • → Russian: апо́строф (apóstrof)
    • → Azerbaijani: apostrof
  • → Persian: آپاستروف (âpâstruf)
  • → Turkish: apostrof
• → Italian: apostrofe (learned)
• → Irish: apastróf (learned)
• → Lithuanian: apostrofa (learned)
• → Macedonian: апостро́фа (apostrófa) (learned)
• → Polish: apostrofa (learned)
• → Portuguese: apóstrofo (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: апострофа (learned)
• → Spanish: apóstrofe (learned)

References

• “apostropha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apostropha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.