Metaphor
From Textus Receptus
A metaphor is an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another. The English metaphor derives from the 16th c. Old French métaphore, from the Latin metaphora “carrying over”, Greek (μεταφορά) metaphorá “transfer”, [1] from (μεταφέρω) metaphero “to carry over”, “to transfer” [2] and from (μετά) meta “between” [3] + (φέρω) phero, “to bear”, “to carry”.[4] Moreover, metaphor also denotes rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison, and resemblance, e.g. antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile; all are species of metaphor. [5]
Notes
- 1. Metaphora, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus
- 2. Metaphero, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus
- 3. Meta, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus
- 4. Phero, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus
- 5. The Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992) pp.653–55
