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metabasis

metabasis noun: a change from one subject to another.

Noun

metabasis (plural metabases)

  1. (rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.
  2. Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

metabasis meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

metabasis in Tamil

நோயில் மாற்றும், நோய் பண்பில் மாற்றம்

metabasis in Tagalog

A change of subject
lipat

Forms of metabasis

pluralmetabases

Origin of metabasis

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-.

Questions about metabasis

What does metabasis mean?
Metabasis means a change from one subject to another.
What is metabasis in Tamil?
Metabasis in Tamil is நோயில் மாற்றும், நோய் பண்பில் மாற்றம். See Metabasis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is metabasis?
Metabasis is a noun.
What is the plural of metabasis?
The plural of metabasis is metabases.

Words near metabasis in the dictionary

  1. metabasidia
  2. metabasidial
  3. metabasidium
  4. metabasin
  5. metabasins
  6. metabasis
  7. metabasite
  8. metabasites
  9. metabatic
  10. metabauxite
  11. metabauxites

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: metabasis (page history and authors); metabasis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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