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Meaning of antiptosis | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
æntɪpˈtəʊsɪs

Definitions

Substitution of one grammatical case for another.

countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Français antiptose
Português antiptose

Examples

“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 appeal to the concept of euphonia.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

antipurine antipuritan antipuritanism antiputrefactive antiputrid antipyic

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