μετατύπωσις
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ, A transformation, Ammon. Diff.p.91 V. II conversion of a compound word into two simple ones, as ἀκρόπολις into ἄκρα πόλις, Eust.626.49, cf. 75.4. III defined as λέξις ἐνηλλαγμένα στοιχεῖα ἔχουσα (as ὑπαί for ὑπό), Trypho Trop.2.16.
German (Pape)
[Seite 155] ἡ, die Umformung, Sp. Die Gramm. nennen so die Umformung eines zusammengesetzten Wortes, z. B. πόλις ἄκρη = ἀκρόπολις, Schol. Il. 4, 105; τέλη λύει für λυσιτελεῖ u. ä., Eust. u. A.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μετατύπωσις: [ῠ], ἡ, ἀνάλυσις λέξεως συνθέτου εἰς δύο ἁπλᾶς, οἷον ἀκρόπολις εἰς ἄκρα πόλις, Εὐστ. 626. 48, πρβλ. 75. 4.
