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Words described using their anagrams

This week’s words
listerize
adulatory
babble
metathesis
blate

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PRONUNCIATION:

(muh-TATH-uh-sis)

MEANING:

noun:
1. The transposition of letters, sounds, or syllables in a word. Example: aks for ask.
2. In chemistry, double decomposition.

ANAGRAM:

metathesis = It’s the same.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via Latin from Greek metatithenai (to transpose), from meta- (among, after) + tithenai (to place). Earliest documented use: 1538.

USAGE:

“As Caractacus, Cedric was the heroic British chieftain who rebelled against Roman rule. As Cerdic son of Cymbeline, Cedric by metathesis was the founder of the kingdom of Wessex.”
Philip Howard; Column; The Times (London, UK); Mar 10, 1995.

See more usage examples of metathesis in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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