metaphora
From LSJ
Sophocles, Fragment 698
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mĕtaphŏra: ae, f., = μεταφορά,
I a rhetorical figure, metaphor, a transferring of a word from its proper signification to another (called by Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 155, verbi translatio; post-Aug.), Quint. 8, 6, 18; (as Greek), id. 8, 6, 4 sqq.; Schol. Juv. 1, 169.
