Re: metalepsis | |
In transliterations from Greek, especially during the Renaissance, the Ancient/Classical Greek vowels η and ω (long ε and long ο respectively) became the Roman alphabet vowels e and o. So a Greek word such as μετάληψις was transliterated as metalepsis, which we pronounce in English with stress on the penult rather than on the antepenult. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word metalepsis is first observed in English in 1577, and referred to a specific kind of allusion in rhetorics. For more about the meaning of the word itself, take a look at the Wikipedia article on Metalepsis. Regards, Greg Brush |