semordnilapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /səˈmɔːdnɪlæp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /səˈmɔːɹdnɪlæp/

名詞

semordnilap (plural semordnilaps)

1. A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A semordnilap differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.
   • 1965, Dmitri Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthological Oddities‎, page 42:

     [He] then goes on to credit us with giving him some of the best examples of semordnilaps.

   • 2000, Gail Smith, Celebrate the Piano, page 18:

     This song is a semordnilap. It can be played forward and then sounds different when it is played backwards.

   • 2008, Alex Pogel, David Ozonoff, “Contingency Structures and Concept Analysis”, in Medina & Obietkov, editors, Formal Concept Analysis, page 318:

     ACE is an acronym for Analysis of Concepts for Epidemiologists, and a semordnilap for ECA, Epidemiological Concept Analysis.

同意語

• (word, phrase, or sentence that forms another when its letters are reversed): anadrome, half-palindrome, heteropalindrome, reversgram, reversible anagram, semi-palindrome, word reversal, levidrome, emordnilap
• See also antigram, in which the meaning is necessarily negated but letters may be freely rearranged.

アナグラム

• emordnilaps, palindromes