hyperbaton

Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈpɜːbətɒn/

hyperbaton (plural hyperbatons or hyperbata)

2. (grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.

   Synonyms: anastrophe, inversion

   • c. 100, Longinus, chapter XXII, in H. L. Havell, transl., On the Sublime, published 1890:

     In real life we often see a man under the influence of rage, or fear, […] begin a sentence, and then swerve aside into some inconsequent parenthesis, and then again double back to his original statement […] Now the figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion.

4. (rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.

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Internationalism (compare English hyperbaton), ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhyperbɑton/, [ˈhype̞rˌbɑ̝t̪o̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑton
• Syllabification^(key): hy‧per‧ba‧ton
• Hyphenation^(key): hy‧per‧ba‧ton

hyperbaton

1. (poetry) hyperbaton