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

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

• SPEAKER

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

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek arbvrpoOos rpoo w&ia, the See also:

• ACCENT

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

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; 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)

letter or letters, e.g. in " See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

don't." In See also:

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

physiology, " See also:

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

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

• MOVEMENT

movement away from the See also:

• LIGHT

light, in thecase of the See also:

• ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

accumulation of See also:

• CHLOROPHYLL (from Gr. XAwpos, green, 4bXXov, a leaf)

chlorophyll-corpuscles on the cells of leaves .