Dictionary

anastrophe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈnæstɹəfi/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

Meanings

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
   • […] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon:
   • Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range. 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Anastrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 43:

Forms

Hypernyms

word order

Relateds

VOS · SVO · chiasmus · anastrophic · OSV · Yodaspeak · anastrophism · VSO · antimetabole · SOV

Synonyms

hyperbaton · inversion

Translations (22)

ga anastróf (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pl przekładnia (switching in the syntactical order of words) · de Inversion (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pl przestawnia (switching in the syntactical order of words) · ja 倒置法 (switching in the syntactical order of words) · cmn 倒裝句 /倒装句 (switching in the syntactical order of words) · it anastrofe (switching in the syntactical order of words) · de Anastrophe (switching in the syntactical order of words) · sh anastrófa (switching in the syntactical order of words) · el αναστροφή (switching in the syntactical order of words) · ja 倒置 (switching in the syntactical order of words) · ca anàstrofe (switching in the syntactical order of words) · tl kabaligtaran (switching in the syntactical order of words) · cmn 倒裝 /倒装 (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pl szyk przestawny (switching in the syntactical order of words) · es anástrofe (switching in the syntactical order of words) · sh анастро́фа (switching in the syntactical order of words) · ru анастро́фа (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pl inwersja (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pt anástrofe (switching in the syntactical order of words) · pl metateza (switching in the syntactical order of words) · fr anastrophe (switching in the syntactical order of words)