metaphrase

noun

1. A literal, word-for-word translation.

2. An answering phrase; repartee.

   Of phrase and metaphrase. Why, any man Can carve a score of white Loves out of snow, As Buonarroti down in Florence there, And set them on the wall in some safe shade […]

   I'm somewhat dull still in the manly art

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, “consider after”). By surface analysis, meta- + phrase.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry metaphrase (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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