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- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀπροσδόκητος“unexpected”
- English todayaprosdoketon
From Ancient Greek ἀπροσδόκητος (aprosdókētos, “unexpected”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
aprosdoketon
Today it means: A figure of speech where an expected word in an idiom is replaced unexpectedly by an unusual one, as in Rome wasn't built in a teacup. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀπροσδόκητος