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