metátese
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See also: metatese
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]metátese f (plural metáteses)
- metathesis
- (surgery) surgical operation that consists of moving from one place to another, where the cause or seat of a disease is less harmful
- (philosophy) transposition of the terms of a reasoning, from which a consequence is deduced
- (linguistics, grammar) phonetic phenomenon that consists of the transposition of phonemes or syllables within the same word
Further reading
[edit]- “metátese”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “metátese”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/atezi
- Rhymes:Portuguese/atezi/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/atɨzɨ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/atɨzɨ/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Surgery
- pt:Philosophy
- pt:Linguistics
- pt:Grammar