metaphor的词源

英文词源

metaphor (n.)

late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

中文词源

metaphor：暗喻，隐喻

meta-,改变，-phor,带来，词源同bring.引申词义改变方式，用于语法指暗喻，隐喻。

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