hypallage
Meaning of hypallage
noun
a transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition, for example in the sentence ‘ Melissa shook her doubtful curls ’.
late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek hupallagē, from hupo ‘under’ + allassein ‘to exchange’.
Information about hypallage
- It is a name.
- The plural form of hypallage is: hypallages.
- Languages in which hypallage is used:
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Hyphenation of hypallage
hy-pal-lage
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- hypallage is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with hypallage
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