Dictionary

antistrophe en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
2. (countable, uncountable) The lines of this part of the choral song.
3. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
4. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

Forms

Deriveds

antistrophize

Relateds

antistrophon · antistrophic

Synonyms

epistrophe

Translations (7)

pl antystrofa (in Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left) · fi antistroofi (in Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left) · it antistrofe (in Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left) · tl pamalikid (the repetition of words in an inverse order) · pt antístrofe (the repetition of words in an inverse order) · pt antístrofe (in Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left) · it antistrofe (the repetition of words in an inverse order)