Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A departure from the literal use of words; a metaphor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.
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- noun A
change , as in the use ofwords ; ametaphor .
Etymologies
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See tralatitious.
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lifeontheplains commented on the word tralatition
Discovered in Nabokov's Transparent Things. Given there as a synonym for metaphor.
May 29, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word tralatition
An irregular extension of tralation, which is a doublet of translation and indeed transfer (Latin lat- < *tlat- being the suppletive supine stem, cognate with perfect tul-, of present and infinitive fer-).
In Latin, tra(ns)latio was used for a variety of linguistic transfers that we now distinguish as translation, metaphor, metathesis, and transposition.
May 29, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word tralatition
Tralalalation...
May 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word tralatition
That's how I read it Milos, which I put down to the after affects of karaoke night on Thursday.
May 30, 2009
mollusque commented on the word tralatition
Strangely enough, I also encountered this word for the first time yesterday, in reading said work!
May 30, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word tralatition
It's not strange, mollusque, it's iroquoisy!
May 30, 2009