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metabasis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
metaba-sis
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A change from one subject to another.

noun

Any change in the course of a disease; metabola.

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: metabasis, μετάβασις, *gʷem-

Inflected Forms

metabases (plural)

Questions

What does metabasis mean?
A change from one subject to another.
Where does metabasis come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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