different between antistrophic vs antistrophe

English

Etymology

antistrophe +? -ic

Adjective

antistrophic (not comparable)

1. (poetry) Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (antistroph?, “turning about”).

Noun

antistrophe (countable and uncountable, plural antistrophes)

1. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
2. The lines of this part of the choral song.
3. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
4. (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

   Synonym: epistrophe

5. The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

Related terms

• antistrophic

Translations

Anagrams

• Stainthorpe, Thesprotian, nastrophite

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (antistroph?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.tis.t??f/

Noun

antistrophe f (plural antistrophes)

1. antistrophe

Further reading

• “antistrophe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antistroph?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an?tis.tro.p?e?/, [än??t??s?t???p?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an?tis.tro.fe/, [?n??t?ist???f?]

Noun

antistroph? f (genitive antistroph?s); first declension

1. antistrophe

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

• Spanish: antistrofa