periphrasis
英 [pə'rɪfrəsɪs]
美[pə'rɪfrəsɪs]
- n. 迂回说法;折绕
词态变化
复数: periphrases;形容词: periphrastic;
中文词源
periphrasis 迂回表达
peri-,在周围,-phrasis,表达,说话,词源同phrase,paraphrase.
英文词源
- periphrasis
- periphrasis: see phrase
- periphrasis (n.)
- 1530s, from Latin periphrasis "circumlocution," from Greek periphrasis, from periphrazein "speak in a roundabout way," from peri- "round about" (see peri-) + phrazein "to express" (see phrase (n.)).
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