μεταφορά
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μεταφέρω (metaphérō, “to transfer”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.ta.pʰo.rǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.ta.pʰoˈra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.ta.ɸoˈra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.ta.foˈra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.ta.foˈra/
Noun
[edit]μετᾰφορᾱ́ • (metaphorā́) f (genitive μετᾰφορᾶς); first declension
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μετᾰφορᾱ́ hē metaphorā́ |
τὼ μετᾰφορᾱ́ tṑ metaphorā́ |
αἱ μετᾰφοραί hai metaphoraí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μετᾰφορᾶς tês metaphorâs |
τοῖν μετᾰφοραῖν toîn metaphoraîn |
τῶν μετᾰφορῶν tôn metaphorôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μετᾰφορᾷ têi metaphorâi |
τοῖν μετᾰφοραῖν toîn metaphoraîn |
ταῖς μετᾰφοραῖς taîs metaphoraîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μετᾰφορᾱ́ν tḕn metaphorā́n |
τὼ μετᾰφορᾱ́ tṑ metaphorā́ |
τᾱ̀ς μετᾰφορᾱ́ς tā̀s metaphorā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | μετᾰφορᾱ́ metaphorā́ |
μετᾰφορᾱ́ metaphorā́ |
μετᾰφοραί metaphoraí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “μεταφορά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μεταφορά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- metaphor idem, page 527.
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá).
Noun
[edit]μεταφορά • (metaforá) f (plural μεταφορές)
Declension
[edit]Declension of μεταφορά
Related terms
[edit]- αερομεταφορά f (aerometaforá, “air transport”)
Further reading
[edit]- μεταφορά on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer-
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -η (o-grade)
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
- grc:Rhetoric
- Ancient Greek terms prefixed with μετα-
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- el:Figures of speech
- Greek nouns declining like 'καρδιά'