Periphrasis
Periphrasis Periphrasis, like its Latin counterpart circumlocution, is a ... indirectly expressed through several or many words. (Periphrasis is of Greek origin [περίφρασις < peri (περί ... straightforward way of saying it".) In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which a grammatical ... too. In a general sense, circumlocution and periphrasis mean describing a word with other ...
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Periphrasis   (translated from French)
Periphrasis periphrasis is a figure of rhetoric . The periphrasis replaces a word A by an expression ... B) is very frequently known Consequently, the periphrasis requires a good knowledge of the subject ...
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Periphrasis   (translated from Italian)
Periphrasis This article is only a first draft ... stub, you see the relative one categoria periphrasis it is one figura rhetorical where the ... or phrases, in longer kind. The word periphrasis it is of origin Greek, while the ... meant "to make one phrase round". The periphrasis often are used in the formal language ...
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Antonomasia   (translated from French)
... by which one proper name (or one periphrasis stating its essential quality), is used like ... roughly speaking, it E century Antonomasia by periphrasis or pronomination Lastly, the antonomasia of the ... but of one ellipse or of one periphrasis, returning to a proper name. In this ...
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Talk:Future tense
Talk:Future tense Periphrasis Could you explain why, as languages evolve, future tenses are usually substituted by periphrasis? Fear of the irrealis? I'm not ... per se in the Gothic language, so periphrasis is all we get. But they are ...
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Conditional   (translated from French)
... and conditional was formed starting from a periphrasis made up of the infinitive of the ... It is supposed that this tendency to periphrasis, already present in traditional Latin, was essential ...
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User talk:Fastifex
... a lot more technical term than this periphrasis. Regards, Santa Sangre 18:27, 2 February ... use some more work, of course the periphrasis was just for the sake of argument ...
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Talk:Figure of speech
... figure of speech), Anastrophe, Anthimeria, Catachresis, Chiasmus, Periphrasis, Enallage, Hyperbaton, Metalepsis, Paralipsis, Proslepsis, Syllepsis, Synecdoche ... simile, synecdoche, metonymy, antanaclasis, paronomasis, syllepsis, anthimeria, periphrasis, personification, hyperbole, litotes, rhetorical question, irony, onomatapoeia ...
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Figure of speech
... or adding words, as in euphemism or periphrasis denominatio: Another word for metonymy epanorthosis: Immediate ... a human action on something non-human periphrasis: Substitution of a word or phrase for ...
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Aspect (linguistica)   (translated from Italian)
... you, everyone of this marked from various periphrasis. In Italian the only oral times that ... protrattivo aspect can be expressed from the periphrasis "to go + infinite", that it implies in ...
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