metabasis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin metabasis, from Ancient Greek μετάβασις (metábasis, “a change, a transition”), from μεταβαίνω (metabaínō, “I cross”), from μετά (metá) and βαίνω (baínō, “I move”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.
Noun[edit]
metabasis (plural metabases)
- (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
- (pathology) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.
Translations[edit]
A change of subject