Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˌpɛ.ɹɪˈfɹæ.stik/
  • Canada:
    • IPA: /ˌpɛ.ɹəˈfɹæ.stɪk/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˌpɛ.ɹəˈfɹæ.stɪk/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˌpɛrəˈfræstɪk/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Expressed in more words than are necessary.
  2. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.
  3. (grammar) Characterized by periphrasis.

Exempel

  • As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.
  • "That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."
  • In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being [… and] in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
  • “The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.

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