metateza

See also: metateză and metatezą

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin metathesis, from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛ.taˈtɛ.za/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛza
  • Syllabification: me‧ta‧te‧za

Noun

metateza f

  1. (linguistics) metathesis (the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word)
    Synonym: przestawka
  2. (rhetoric) anastrophe
    Synonyms: inwersja, przekładnia, przestawnia, szyk przestawny
  3. (organic chemistry) metathesis (the breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • metateza in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • metateza in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From metateză.

Verb

a metateza (third-person singular present metatezează, past participle metatezat) 1st conjugation

  1. to metathesize

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /metǎteza/
  • Hyphenation: me‧ta‧te‧za

Noun

metàteza f (Cyrillic spelling мета̀теза)

  1. metathesis

Declension

Declension of metateza
singular plural
nominative metateza metateze
genitive metateze metateza
dative metatezi metatezama
accusative metatezu metateze
vocative metatezo metateze
locative metatezi metatezama
instrumental metatezom metatezama