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enantiodromic - characteristic of something which has become its opposite
Thanks, tsuwm, I hadn't seen this word before, though I have heard of amphibolous and Janus words ... I wonder about the -o- ...
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OED2 gives the Gk. enantiodromia (englished, of course), running in contrary ways; from enantios + dromos (opposite + running). and here's where I got the notion: http://www.users.bigpond.com/burnside/contradicting.htmBurnside differentiates between a word which shows "historical drift" (enantiodromic) and one which "maintains... two opposite meanings side by side", which he characterizes as a Janus word or amphibolous.
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enantios
Enantios for antios which is a sort of nominalized preposition. LSJ only gives on citation for enantiodromia: from Plutarch's Placita philosophorum, (ed. Diels, Doxographi Graeci).
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stead statt stat
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Nice one
As the Persians/Iranians say in Farsi: mersi. I hear they also call bad things bad.
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Yes--thank you. Next question: does 'drom-' or 'dromic' have something to do with meaning round, or circular? I thought of palindrome; then velodrome. Wups: Qua, as Anu points out today in AWAD The nth time I've embarrassed myself here by not knowing the W. of the D. 
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does 'drom-' or 'dromic' have something to do with meaning round, or circular?
It's Greek for running: dromos 'racecourse', dramein 'to run'. Plaindromes are running backwards, and hippodromes are for losing your moolah in. And to tie in the Olympics: Greek dromax 'good at running'.
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drama?
No, drama is from Greek dra:n 'to do, perform' < PIE *der@-, *dra:- 'to work'. Dromos is from *drem- 'to run'. Close, though.
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thanks, jheem. guess that play didn't have a very long run... 
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