apostropha
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: apostrophas, apostrophât
Verb
apostropha
- third-person singular past historic of apostropher
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ, literally “a turning away”), from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “I turn away”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈpɔs.trɔ.pʰa]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈpɔs.t̪ro.fa]
Noun
apostropha f (genitive apostrophae); first declension
- (rhetoric) apostrophe (sudden piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | apostropha | apostrophae |
| genitive | apostrophae | apostrophārum |
| dative | apostrophae | apostrophīs |
| accusative | apostropham | apostrophās |
| ablative | apostrophā | apostrophīs |
| vocative | apostropha | apostrophae |
Descendants
Descendants
- → Asturian: apóstrofe (learned)
- → Czech: apostrofa (learned)
- → German: Apostrophe (learned)
- → Finnish: apostrofi (learned)
- → French: apostrophe (learned)
- → Italian: apostrofe (learned)
- → Irish: apastróf (learned)
- → Lithuanian: apostrofa (learned)
- → Macedonian: апостро́фа (apostrófa) (learned)
- → Polish: apostrofa (learned)
- → Portuguese: apóstrofo (learned)
- → Serbo-Croatian: апострофа (learned)
- → Spanish: apóstrofe (learned)
References
- “apostropha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apostropha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.