metátese

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Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • Hyphenation: me‧tá‧te‧se

Noun[edit]

metátese f (plural metáteses)

  1. (prosody, phonetics) metathesis (the transposition of phonemes within a word)