periphrasis是什么意思

英文词源

periphrasis

periphrasis: see phrase

periphrasis (n.)

1530s, from Latin periphrasis "circumlocution," from Greek periphrasis, from periphrazein "speak in a roundabout way," from peri- "round about" (see peri-) + phrazein "to express" (see phrase (n.)).