figura Latin · revision 3713

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  It meant form or make-up, shape or outline, as Varro's star changing its colour, size and shape, and a person's appearance or features.^(OLD 2012) It meant a pose or posture, an outward appearance as opposed to real nature, an image or likeness, and in astronomy a constellation.^(OLD 2012)
  
− In grammar it was the form of a word, and in rhetoric a figure of speech, a way of speaking that departs from the plain.^(OLD 2012) Christian writers used it of a type or prefiguration.^(Köbler 2010) In medieval music it was a written note.^(LmL) English ''figure'' came from it through Old French, first as “numeral” about 1200.^(Etymonline)
+ In grammar it was the form of a word, and in rhetoric a figure of speech, a way of speaking that departs from the plain.^(OLD 2012) Köbler also lists the senses “symbol” and “allegory”.^(Köbler 2010) In medieval music it was a written note.^(LmL) English ''figure'' came from it through Old French, first as “numeral” about 1200.^(Etymonline)
  
  ==Timeline==