heterosis

Figure Name heterosis
Source Bullinger (1898) ("heterosis; or, exchange of accidence")
Earliest Source None
Synonyms exchange of accidence
Etymology Gr. heteros "another," "different"
Type None
Linguistic Domain
Definition

1. Exchange of one Voice, Mood, Tense, Person, Number, Degree, or Gender, for another... [see Etymology] It is the name given to that form of Enallage which consists of an exchange, not of actual parts of speech, but of the accidence of a part of speech. The following are the various forms of Heterosis: -
HETEROSIS
I. Of FORMS and VOICES.
1. Intransitive for Transitive.
2. Active for Passive.
3. Middle for Passive.
II. Of MOODS.
1. Indicative for Subjunctive.
2. Subjunctive for Indicative.
3. Imperative for Indicative.
4. Imperative for Subjunctive.
5. Infinitive for Indicative.
6. Infinitive for Imperative.
III. Of TENSES.
1. Past for Present.
2. Past for Future.
3. Aorist (Indefinite) for Past.
4. Aortist (Indefinite) for Present.
5. Present for Past.
6. Present for Future.
7. Present for Paulo post futurum (i.e., a little after [Future).
8. Future for Past.
9. Future for Present.
10. Future for Imperative.
IV. Of PERSONS
1. First Person for Third.
2. Second for Third.
3. Third for First or Second.
4. Plural for Singular.
5. Singular for Plural.
V. Of ADJECTIVES (DEGREE) and ADVERBS.
1. Positive for Comparative.
2. Positive for Superlative.
3. Comparative for Positive.
4. Comparative for Superlative.
5. Superlative for Comparative.
VI. Of NOUNS (NUMBER), ADJECTIVES, and PRONOUNS.
1. Singular for Plural.
2. Plural for Singular.
3. Plural for Indefinite Number or one of many.
VII. Of GENDER.
1. Masculine for Feminine.
2. Masculine for Neuter.
3. Feminine for Neuter.
4. Neuter for Masculine or Feminine. (Bullinger, 515-517)

Example

1. Matt. 5:29. -"If thy right eye offend thee": (skandalize), "to make to stumble:" i.e., make thee stumble. So 18:6. 1 Cor. 8:13. (Bullinger, 518)

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Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Ioanna Malton
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