Meaning of metalepsis in English
Pronunciation
/ˌmɛtəˈlɛpsɪs/US accent
UK accent
Noun
metalepsisEtymology
mid 16th century; earliest use found in Richard Sherry (b. c1505), schoolmaster and author. From post-classical Latin metalepsis, variant of classical Latin metalēmpsis (1st cent. a.d. in Quintilian) from ancient Greek μετάληψις alternation, succession (in Hellenistic Greek as a rhetorical term) from μετα- + -ληψις, after μεταλαμβάνειν to substituteDefinitions
1. substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another