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chiasmi

chiasmi is the plural of chiasmus.

Meaning of chiasmus

Noun

chiasmus (countable and uncountable, plural chiasmi or chiasmuses)

  1. (rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
    • The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[…]1934, H. H. Walker, N. W. Lund, “The Literary Structure of the Book of Habakkuk”, in Journal of Biblical Literature, 53 (4): 355
    Synonyms:
    chiasm

Questions about chiasmi

What is chiasmi the plural of?
Chiasmi is the plural of chiasmus.

Words near chiasmi in the dictionary

  1. chiasmas
  2. chiasmata
  3. chiasmate
  4. chiasmates
  5. chiasmatic
  6. chiasmi
  7. chiasmic
  8. chiasmodontid
  9. chiasmodontids
  10. chiasms
  11. chiasmus

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