hypallage
Meanings
noun
- The use of a grammatical modifier which syntactically modifies an item other than the one it belongs to semantically, generating a connection between the two.
- A phrase in which this occurs.
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Etymology
From Latin hypallagē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “hypo-”) + ἀλλάσσειν (allássein, “to exchange”).
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