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Metaphrase

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A literal, word-for-word translation.
  2. 2
    An answering phrase; repartee.

    "I'm somewhat dull still in the manly art Of phrase and metaphrase. Why, any man Can carve a score of white Loves out of snow, As Buonarroti down in Florence there, And set them on the wall in some safe shade […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make such a literal translation.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.

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