Etymology

hypallage

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Latin hypallagē ← Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὑπαλλαγή
  2. Latin · borrowed fromhypallagē
  3. English todayhypallage

From Latin hypallagē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “hypo-”) + ἀλλάσσειν (allássein, “to exchange”).

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