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μεταφορ-ά

metaphora · ἡ

transference

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Where it lives

Ars Poetica 17 · 16.81/10k
Rhetoric 50 · 11.63/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
Evagoras 1 · 2.18/10k
Metaphysics 6 · 0.76/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 4 · 0.72/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 4 · 0.71/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

μεταφορ-ά · metaphor-a — LSJ

transference

transference, Nicom.Com. 1.35; of ownership, BGU 1127.37 (i B. C.).

2 transport, haulage

transport, haulage, Hero Bel. 102.11 (pl.); οἴνου POxy. 729.24 (ii A. D.).

3 change, phase

change, phase of the moon, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.923c.

II transference, to a new sense, metaphor

Rhet., transference of a word to a new sense, metaphor, Isoc. 9.9 (pl.), Arist. Po. 1457b6, Rh. 1410b36, Epicur. Nat. 28.5, Plu. Cic. 40, Demetr. Eloc. 78 (pl.), etc.

In the wild

μεταφοραῖς · metaphorais Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2374)
μεταφοραῖς · metaphorais Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2374)
μεταφοραῖς · metaphorais Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2374)
μεταφοραῖς · metaphorais Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2374)
μεταφορὰ · metaphora Aristotle, Ars Poetica 21
Μεταφορὰ · Metaphora Aristotle, Ars Poetica 21

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