metátese

See also: metatese

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈta.te.zi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /meˈta.te.ze/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨˈta.tɨ.zɨ/

Hyphenation: me‧tá‧te‧se

Noun

metátese f (plural metáteses)

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

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