epistrophe

English

Borrowed from Latin epistrophē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

Examples
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.^[1]

epistrophe (countable and uncountable, plural epistrophes)

(rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe

Antonym: anaphora
- 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Epistrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 75:
  Epistrophe many sentences will close
  With the same word, in verse as well as prose.
(botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains on the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to apostrophe (an arrangement at right angles to the surface).
- 1905 September 8, Harold Wager, “On Some Problems of Cell Structure and Physiology”, in English Mechanics and the World of Science, volume 82, number 2111, page 105:
  As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιστροφή (epistrophḗ).

epistrophē f (genitive epistrophēs); first declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

“epistrophe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
epistrophe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.