Dictionaries › English

anastrophe

Pronunciation: /əˈnæstɹəfi/

The English word “anastrophe” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

Etymology

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

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “anastrophe” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.