"cataphora" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kætəˈfɔɹə/, /kəˈtæfəɹə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-cataphora.wav [US] Forms: cataphoras [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a downward motion”), from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|καταφορά||a downward motion}} Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a downward motion”), {{m|grc|κατά||downwards}} κατά (katá, “downwards”), {{m|grc|φέρω||I carry}} φέρω (phérō, “I carry”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} cataphora (countable and uncountable, plural cataphoras)
  1. (linguistics, rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect. Tags: countable, rhetoric, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics, Rhetoric Hypernyms: endophora Translations (referring to a noun that appears later): catàfora [feminine] (Catalan), cataphore [feminine] (French), καταφορά (kataforá) [feminine] (Greek), catafòra [feminine] (Occitan), catáfora [feminine] (Spanish)

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