circumlocution

Significado (Inglés)

1. (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus
2. (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
3. (uncountable) A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; thus:
4. (countable) An instance of such usage; a roundabout expression, whether an inadvisable one or a necessary one.

Conceptos

circunlocución

perífrasis

ambages

circunloquio

parafrasis

rodeos

circunloquios

rodeo

Sinónimos

periphrasis

euphemism

euphuism

indirectness

roundabout

indirect expression

ambage

loquacity

obliqueness

roving

verbosity

roundabout expression

periphrase

rambling discourse

roundaboutation

circumbendibus

diffuseness

discursiveness

euphemistic

garrulity

indirect

Traducciones

périphrase

circonlocuzione

circonlocution

circunlóquio

περίφραση

Umschreibung

circunlocução

perifrasi

circumloqui

perífrasi

arzigogolo

circumlocució

πολυλογία

glimpflich

Periphrase

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˌsɜːkəmləˈkjuːʃən/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Latin circumlocūtiō (“the act of speaking around; circumlocution, periphrasis”). By surface analysis, circum- (“around”) + locution (“talk”), thus "getting around (a problem) in speaking or writing". Probably a calque of Ancient Greek περίφρασις (períphrasis, “periphrasis”).