hypallages
Meaning of hypallages
plural 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 hypallages
- It is a name.
- The singular form of hypallages is: hypallage.
- Languages in which hypallages is used:
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Hyphenation of hypallages
hy-pal-lages
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- hypallages is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with hypallages
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