periphrasis

  • 51Untranslatability — is a property of a text, or of any utterance, in one language, for which no equivalent text or utterance can be found in another language.Terms are neither exclusively translatable nor exclusively untranslatable; rather, the degree of difficulty… …

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  • 52Cape Verdean Creole — Kriolu, Kriol, kriolu kabuverdianu Spoken in Cape Verde, Cape Verdean diaspora Native speakers 926,078[1]  (date missing) …

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  • 53Romance verbs — refers to the verbs of the Romance languages. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonetic, syntactic, and semantic changes. Most of the distinctions present in classical Latin continued to be made, but… …

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  • 54перифраза — Заимств. в XVIII в. из франц. яз., где périphrase из лат. periphrasis, передающего греч. periphrasis «окружение», сложение peri «вокруг, кругом» и phrasis «фраза». См. фраза …

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  • 55Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch — Dutch and Afrikaans Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch[1][2][3] …

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  • 56perifrază — PERIFRÁZĂ, perifraze, s.f. Procedeu gramatical şi stilistic de exprimare prin mai multe cuvinte a ceea ce, în mod obişnuit, se poate reda printr un singur cuvânt; grup de cuvinte care înlocuieşte un termen unic cu acelaşi sens. – Din ngr.… …

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  • 57perifrasi — /pe rifrazi/ s.f. [dal lat. periphrāsis, gr. períphrasis, der. di periphrázō parlare con circonlocuzioni ]. (crit.) [procedimento espressivo consistente nell usare, anziché un termine unico, un insieme di parole] ▶◀ circonlocuzione, Ⓖ (fam.) giro …

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  • 58Periphrase — Pe|ri|phra|se die; , n <über gleichbed. lat. periphrasis aus gr. períphrasis>: 1. Umschreibung eines Begriffs, einer Person od. Sache durch kennzeichnende Eigenschaften (z. B. der Allmächtige für Gott). 2. svw. ↑Paraphrase …

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  • 59phrase — [16] Greek phrásis ‘speech, way of speaking’ was a derivative of the verb phrázein ‘show, explain’. English adopted it via Latin phrasis as phrasis, whose plural phrases eventually gave rise to a new singular phrase. From the same source comes… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 60periphrastic — 1805, from Gk. periphrastikos, from periphrazein (see PERIPHRASIS (Cf. periphrasis)) …

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