different between apostrophe vs strophe

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?s.t??.fi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??s.t??.fi/

Etymology 1

From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ????????? (apostréph?, “I turn away”), from ??? (apó, “away from”) + ?????? (stréph?, “to turn”).

Alternative forms

• apostrophë, apostrophy

Noun

apostrophe (plural apostrophes)

2. (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Usage notes

In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive (e.g. “my friend’s wife”) or to show the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. “my friend’s angry”).

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• apostrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

Etymology 2

From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apostroph?), from ????????? (apostréph?, “I turn away”), from ??? (apó) + ?????? (stréph?, “I turn”).

Noun

apostrophe (countable and uncountable, plural apostrophes)

2. (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Derived terms

• apostrophic, apostrophically
• apostrophize

Related terms

• catastrophe

Translations

Anagrams

• protophase

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p?s.t??f/
• Homophones: apostrophent, apostrophes

Etymology 1

From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ????????? (apostréph?, “I turn away”).

Noun

apostrophe f (plural apostrophes)

1. (orthography) apostrophe

Etymology 2

From Latin apostrophe, from Ancient Greek ????????? (apostroph?), from ????????? (apostréph?, “I turn away”), from ??? (apó) + ?????? (stréph?, “I turn”).

Noun

apostrophe f (plural apostrophes)

1. (rhetoric) apostrophe

Related terms

• apostropher

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

apostrophe

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of apostropher
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of apostropher
3. second-person singular imperative of apostropher

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????? (stroph?, “a turn, bend, twist”).

Noun

strophe (plural strophes)

1. (prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
2. (prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
3. (prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.

Related terms

• antistrophe
• apostrophe
• catastrophe
• strophic

See also

• ode
• stanza

Anagrams

• Thorpes, pothers, preshot, thorpes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????? (stroph?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??f/

Noun

strophe f (plural strophes)

1. (poetry) stanza

Further reading

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