antistrophe

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

antistrophe (countable and uncountable, plural antistrophes)

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

   Synonym: epistrophe

• antistrophic
• antistrophon

• “antistrophe”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “antistrophe”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “antistrophe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Stainthorpe, Thesprotian, nastrophite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tis.tʁɔf/

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antistrophe f (plural antistrophes)

1. antistrophe

• “antistrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [anˈtɪs.trɔ.pʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪ˈt̪is.t̪ro.fe]

antistrophē f (genitive antistrophēs); first declension

1. antistrophe

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• → English: antistrophe
• French: antistrophe
• Italian: antistrofe
• Portuguese: antístrofe
• Spanish: antistrofa