catacrese

Portuguese
Examples
  • original meaning: folha (“leaf (of a plant)”)
  • with catacrese: folha (“sheet (of paper)”)

Noun

catacrese f (plural catacreses)

  1. the use of a word from a similar or comparable concept to represent another concept
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