metaphrast

American

[met-uh-frast] / ˈmɛt əˌfræst /

noun

a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.

metaphrast British

/ ˈmɛtəˌfræst /

noun

a person who metaphrases, esp one who changes the form of a text, as by rendering verse into prose

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Origin of metaphrast

1600–10; Medieval Greek metaphrástēs one who translates, equivalent to *metaphrad-, base of metaphrázein to translate ( see meta-, phrase) + -tēs agent suffix

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