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hypallage

hy·pal·lage

UK/hɪˈpælədʒi/ US/hʌɪˈpælədʒi/ uncommon

noun

1.

reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty''s face'')

Origin

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

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