Hyperbaton Definition
hī-pûrbə-tŏn
noun
A figure of speech that uses deviation from normal or logical word order for rhetorical effect, as in anastrophe or hysteron proteron.
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hyperbata, hyperbatonsOrigin of Hyperbaton
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Greek huperbaton from neuter of huperbatos transposed from huperbainein to step over huper- over, across hyper– bainein to step gwā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Latin hyperbaton, from Greek ὑπερβατον "˜overstepping', from ὑπερβαινειν, from ὑπερ- + βαίνειν "˜walk'.
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