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antiptoses

antiptoses is the plural of antiptosis.

Meaning of antiptosis

Noun

antiptosis (countable and uncountable, plural antiptoses)

  1. (rhetoric) Substitution of one grammatical case for another.
    • As a vocative form, deus is a clear violation of established norms. The grammarians occasionally encountered apparent examples of such vocatives in the texts they taught, and they explained them either by invoking the figure of antiptosis, in which the “correct” case is replaced by another, or by...1997 April, John Rauk, “The Vocative of Deus and Its Problems”, in Classical Philology, volume XCII, № 2, page 143

Questions about antiptoses

What is antiptoses the plural of?
Antiptoses is the plural of antiptosis.

Words near antiptoses in the dictionary

  1. antipsychotherapeutic
  2. antipsychotherapy
  3. antipsychotic
  4. antipsychotically
  5. antipsychotics
  6. antiptoses
  7. antiptosis
  8. antipublic
  9. antipublicity
  10. antipudic
  11. antipuncture

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