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Allegory

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a story, poem, or image whose events or characters carry a hidden symbolic meaning
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Stage 1 of 2
allegoria
Greek · ancient
"speaking otherwise, veiled meaning"
literally speaking otherwise, from allos (other) and agoreuein (to speak)
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Stage 2 of 2
allegory
English · 1300s
"a story with a hidden symbolic meaning"
settled as the English word for a story with a hidden symbolic meaning
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