Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who renders a text into a different form, as by recasting prose in verse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who translates literally from one language into another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A literal translator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who uses
metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Greek metaphrastēs, from Greek metaphrazein, to translate; see metaphrase.]
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