Metabasis Definition

noun

(rhetoric) A change from one subject to another.

Wiktionary

(pathology) Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

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Other Word Forms of Metabasis

Noun

Singular:
metabasis
Plural:
metabases

Origin of Metabasis

  • From Late Latin metabasis, from Ancient Greek μετάβασις (metábasis, “a change, a transition”), from μεταβαίνω (metabaíno, “I cross”), from μετά (metá) and βαίνω (baíno, “I move”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.

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