circumlocution

From LSJ

σφάγιον ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ, γυναικεῖον ἀμφικεῖσθαι μόρον → my wife's death, lies upon me, bringing destruction after death | Is it that now there waits in store for me, my own wife's death to crown my misery

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

V. περιπλοκαί λόγων, αἱ (Euripides, Phoenissae 494), Ar. περίλεξις, ἡ.

long-windedness: P. μακρολογία, ἡ.

Translations

Bulgarian: увъртане, заобикалки; Finnish: kiertely, jaarittelu, pyörittely; French: périphrase, circonlocution; German: Umschweife; Greek: περίφραση, πολυλογία; Hungarian: köntörfalazás, kertelés; Italian: giro di parole, perifrasi; Persian: اطناب‎, درازگویی‎; Portuguese: circunlocução, circunlóquio; Spanish: circunlocución, rodeos, ambages, circunloquios; Swedish: omsvep; Vietnamese: giải ngữ, ngữ giải thích