METATHESIS

noun (plural metatheses) see: do Date: circa 1538 a change of place or condition: as, transposition of two phonemes in a word (as in the development of crud from curd or the pronunciation \\ˈpər-tē\\ for pretty ), a chemical reaction in which different kinds of molecules exchange parts to form other kinds of molecules, metathetical or metathetic adjective metathetically adverb