hipérbato
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /iˈpɛʁ.ba.tu/ [iˈpɛɦ.ba.tu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /iˈpɛɾ.ba.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iˈpɛʁ.ba.tu/
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /iˈpɛɻ.ba.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /iˈpɛʁ.ba.to/ [iˈpɛɦ.ba.to]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /iˈpɛɾ.bɐ.tu/ [iˈpɛɾ.βɐ.tu]
- Hyphenation: hi‧pér‧ba‧to
Noun
hipérbato m (plural hipérbatos)
- (grammar) hyperbaton (inversion of the usual order of words or phrases)
Further reading
- “hipérbato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin hyperbaton, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go, move, walk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈpeɾbato/ [iˈpeɾ.β̞a.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -eɾbato
- Syllabification: hi‧pér‧ba‧to
Noun
hipérbato m (plural hipérbatos)
Derived terms
- hiperbático
Further reading
- “hipérbato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025