metathesis

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Borrowed from Late Latin metathesis, from Ancient Greek μετάθεσις (metáthesis), from μετά (metá, “among”) + θέσις (thésis, “placement”).

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: vendkëmbim — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Arabic: قَلْب مَكَانِيّ (qalb makāniyy) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Armenian: դրափոխություն (drapʻoxutʻyun) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Azerbaijani: yerdəyişmə — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Breton: metatezenn — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Bulgarian: метате́за (metatéza) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Catalan: metàtesi — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Chinese Mandarin: 音位變換 /音位变换 — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Danish: metatese — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Danish: lydombytning — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Dutch: metathesis — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Dutch: metathese — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Dutch: letteromzetting — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Finnish: takaheitto — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Finnish: metateesi — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• French: métathèse — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Galician: metátese — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• German: Metathese — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Greek: αντιμετάθεση (antimetáthesi) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Ancient Greek: μετάθεσις (metáthesis) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Hungarian: hangátvetés — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Icelandic: hljóðavíxl — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Icelandic: stafavíxl — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Italian: metatesi — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Japanese: 音位転換 (on'itenkan) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Latvian: metatēze — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Malay: metatesis — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Eastern Mari: вервашталтыш (vervaštaltyš) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Eastern Mari: метатезе (metateze) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Nepali: विपर्यय (viparyaya) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Old Norse: stafasnúning — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Polish: metateza — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Polish: przestawka — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Portuguese: metátese — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Romanian: metateză — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Russian: метате́за (metatɛ́za) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Russian: перестано́вка (perestanóvka) — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-chàradh — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Upper Sorbian: metateza — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Spanish: metátesis — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Swedish: stavelseväxling — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Swedish: metates — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Tagalog: metatesis — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Turkish: metatez — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Turkish: göçüşme — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Welsh: trawsosodiad — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Yoruba: pàṣípààrọ̀ — the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word
• Finnish: metateesi — the double decomposition of inorganic salts
• Portuguese: dupla troca — the double decomposition of inorganic salts
• Portuguese: metátese — the double decomposition of inorganic salts
• Finnish: metateesi — the breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped
• Malay: metatesis — the breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped
• Polish: metateza — the breaking and reforming of double bonds in olefins in which substituent groups are swapped