different between catachresis vs catechesis

English

Alternative forms

• catechresis, katachresis (both 17th century, obsolete)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin catachr?sis, borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (katákhr?sis, “misuse (of a word)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt.??k?i?.s?s/

Noun

catachresis (plural catachreses)

1. A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
   1. (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
2. (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.

Synonyms

• (misuse of a word, regardless of similar sounds): misnomer
• (misuse of a word, with similar sounds): malapropism
• ((rhetoric) bad metaphor or trope): abusio

Related terms

• catachresized
• catachrestic
• catachrestical
• catachrestically

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kat?khé?, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Noun

catechesis (plural catecheses)

1. Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.

Related terms

• catechism
• catechetics
• catechist
• catechumen

Translations

Anagrams

• catechises

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?kh?sis), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kat?khé?, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ??? (?kh?, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.te??k?e?.sis/, [kät?e??k?e?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.te?ke.sis/, [k?t???k??s?is]

Noun

cat?ch?sis f (genitive cat?ch?sis or cat?ch?se?s or cat?ch?sios); third declension

1. catechesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Declension

• Catalan: catequesi
• Galician: catequese
• Italian: catechesi
• Portuguese: catequese
• Spanish: catequesis

References

• catechesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catechesis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• catechesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette