metălepsis — Lewis & Short
metălepsis, is, f., = meta/lhyis,
I in rhetoric, the use of one word for another which it suggests by association, as, the cause for the effect, or the reverse;
especially when a second substitution is made, as when aristae is said for messis, and then for aestas or annus: est haec in metalepsi natura, ut inter id, quod transfertur, sit medius quidam gradus, nihil ipse significans, sed praebens transitum,Quint. 8, 6, 38:
in metalepsin cadit,id. 6, 3, 52.