hysteron proteron

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A figure of speech in which a phrase that should come last is put first; hysterology. rhetoric
    — "He is well and lives" is a hysteron proteron.
  2. An inversion or reversal of the natural order of things.

词形变化

hysteron proterons plural

词源

From Ancient Greek, from ὕστερον (hústeron, “latter, arriving late”) + πρότερον (próteron, “former, before”).
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