Why this word is great
METAPHRASE — [Noun, Verb] A literal, word-for-word translation, or the act of producing such a translation. From Ancient Greek μεταφράζομαι (metaphrázomai, "to consider after, to translate literally"), from μετά (metá, "after, beyond") and φράζω (phrázō, "to point out, explain, tell"). Unlike paraphrase, which seeks the spirit in new garments, or adaptation, which transplants a work into foreign soil, metaphrase is a vow of lexical fidelity. It is the austere grid of a parallel-text edition, the clanking syntax of a translated law code, the preserved specimen pinned under glass—a testament to the quiet faith that meaning resides not beyond the words, but inseparably within their very grain and order.