Editing Metaphor (section)

== Etymology ==

The English word ''metaphor'' derives from the 16th-century [[Old French]] word {{Lang|fro|métaphore}}, which comes from the [[Latin]] {{Lang|la|metaphora}}, 'carrying over', and in turn from the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{Lang|grc|μεταφορά}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|metaphorá}}), 'transference (of ownership)',<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2367015 μεταφορά] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706220206/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2367015 |date=6 July 2007 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus.</ref> from {{Lang|grc|μεταφέρω}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|metapherō}}), 'to carry over, to transfer'<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%dsfsafdsagsafvdfc cdasc3D%2367010 μεταφέρω], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus.</ref> and that from {{Lang|grc|μετά}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|meta}}), 'behind, along with, across'<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2366573 μετά] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329044238/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2366573 |date=29 March 2008 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus.</ref> + {{Lang|grc|φέρω}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|pherō}}), 'to bear, to carry'.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23110599 φέρω] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912222854/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%23110599 |date=12 September 2007 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus.</ref>