epistrophe

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.

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

   • [1835, L[arret] 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.]

2. (botony) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
   • 1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 82, number 2111, page 105:

     As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.

Further reading

• epistrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tro.pʰeː/, [ɛˈpɪs̠t̪rɔpʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tro.fe/, [eˈpist̪rofe]

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.