Latin-English-Ukrainian translation of anatomical metaphors with a “geo” component

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of the translation of anatomical terms-metaphors on the material of the Latin, English, and Ukrainian languages. The theoretical foundations of the study of terminological metaphor in modern linguistics have been clarified, the research works of Yu. Brazhuk, N. Tsysar, H. Usyk and T. Kyrylenko, Yu. Makarenko and I. Tkachenko have been analyzed. A complex classification of anatomical binary terms has been applied (among the criteria there are the source of metaphorization, the lexical-semantic type of modifier of the metaphorical term, the type of translational transformation, structural features), and the specificity of the reproduction of binary terms in the translational aspect has been revealed. Methods of metaphorizing compounds, which include a modifier with the meaning “part of the terrain”, have been studied. In particular, the article examines such binary terms as optic tubercle, pharyngeal tubercle, fundus of the bladder, temporal pole, uterine isthmus, etc.