μεταφορά
metaphora
transference
Appears 108 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Dictionary (LSJ)
μεταφορά, ἡ, A. transference, 1.35; of ownership, BGU 1127.37 (i B. C.). 2. transport, haulage, Bel. 102.11 (pl.); οἴνου POxy. 729.24 (ii A. D.). 3. change, phase of the moon, 2.923c. II. Rhet., transference of a word to a new sense, metaphor, 9.9 (pl.), Po. 1457b6, Rh. 1410b36, Nat. 28.5, Cic. 40, Eloc. 78 (pl.), etc.
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
Index Aristotelicus. Hermann Bonitz's sense-by-sense analysis of
μεταφορά — with the passages
he singles out as decisive for each meaning — will appear here. That curated,
interpretive selection is the layer LSJ and a raw concordance don't provide.
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