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hypallage

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin hypallage, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, hypo-) + ἀλλάσσειν (allássein, to exchange).

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Noun

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hypallage (countable and uncountable, plural hypallages)

Examples (rhetoric, grammar)
  • drunk driving - it is a driver not the "driving" that is drunk
  • her beauty's face - "her" face not "her beauty's"
  • I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face - the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face"
  • Bottom: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream act IV, scene 1 - Sense and sense organ are repeatedly mismatched by this comic character.
  1. (rhetoric, grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as a literary device.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhypɑlːɑɡe/, [ˈhypɑ̝lˌlɑ̝ɡe̞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑɡe
  • Hyphenation(key): hy‧pal‧la‧ge

Noun

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hypallage

  1. (rhetoric) hypallage

Declension

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Inflection of hypallage (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative hypallage hypallaget
genitive hypallagen hypallagejen
partitive hypallagea hypallageja
illative hypallageen hypallageihin
singular plural
nominative hypallage hypallaget
accusative nom. hypallage hypallaget
gen. hypallagen
genitive hypallagen hypallagejen
hypallagein rare
partitive hypallagea hypallageja
inessive hypallagessa hypallageissa
elative hypallagesta hypallageista
illative hypallageen hypallageihin
adessive hypallagella hypallageilla
ablative hypallagelta hypallageilta
allative hypallagelle hypallageille
essive hypallagena hypallageina
translative hypallageksi hypallageiksi
abessive hypallagetta hypallageitta
instructive hypallagein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of hypallage (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin hypallage, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hypallage f or m (plural hypallages)

  1. (rhetoric) chiasmus

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