APOSTROPHE (Gr. aroarporbit, turning away; the final e being sounded)

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APOSTROPHE (Gr. aroarporbit, turning away; the final e being sounded) , the name given to an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a

speaker

SPEAKER

or writer breaks off and addresses some one directly in the vocative. The same word (representing, through the

French

, the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

arbvrpoOos rpoo w&ia, the

accent

ACCENT

of elision) means also the sign (') for the omission of a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

or letters, e.g. in " don't." In

physiology

PHYSIOLOGY (from Gr. 4 i s, nature, and koyos, discourse)

, " apostrophe " is used more precisely in connexion with its literal meaning of " turning away," e.g. for

movement

MOVEMENT

away from the

light

LIGHT

, in thecase of the

accumulation

ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

of chlorophyll-corpuscles on the cells of leaves.

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