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From Latin paraphrasis, from Ancient Greek παράφρασις (paráphrasis).

• IPA^(key): /pəˈræfrəsɪs/

paraphrasis (uncountable)

1. The practice of paraphrasing.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράφρασις (paráphrasis).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈra.pʰra.sis/, [päˈräpʰräs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈra.fra.sis/, [päˈräːfräs̬is]

paraphrasis f (genitive paraphrasis); third declension

1. paraphrase

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -ī).

• “paraphrasis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paraphrasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.