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.[1]

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.

References
  1. The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:11.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Pronunciation

Noun

epistrophē f (genitive epistrophēs); first declension

  1. (rhetoric) a returning

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case 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.
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