metaplasm

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Etymology

From Latin metaplasmus from Ancient Greek μεταπλασμός (metaplasmós).

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Noun

metaplasm (plural metaplasms)

1. (linguistics) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
2. (biology) A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell.

Hyponyms

• (linguistics):
  • prothesis, epenthesis, paragoge, diaeresis, diastole
  • aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, ellipsis, ecthlipsis, synaloepha, synizesis, synaeresis, systole
  • metathesis
  • antisthecon

Derived terms

• metaplasmic

Translations

linguistics: alteration of a word’s letters or sounds

Arabic: تغيير Breton: metaplasmenn Catalan: metaplasme m Danish: metaplasme French: métaplasme (fr) German: Metaplasmus m Greek: μεταπλασμός (el) m (metaplasmós) Ancient: μεταπλασμός m (metaplasmós) Hungarian: metaplazmus Japanese: 語音変異 Latin: metaplasmus Occitan: metaplasme m Portuguese: metaplasmo (pt), metaplasma Russian: метапласм (metaplasm) Spanish: metaplasmo (es) m

biology: small particle within a cell

Finnish: metaplasma Tagalog: lakdawkaphay

See also

• (linguistics): clipping

Further reading

• metaplasm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia