Thanks.

** I hate links that immediately produce downloads to your computer!

ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from French métaphore, via Latin from Greek metaphora, from metapherein ‘to transfer.’

Or as Wikipedia says, the Greek is itself a compound of μετά (meta), “between” + φέρω (pherō), “to bear”, “to carry”.

So there.

** Since I have a Scottish computer there should be no real danger, but it still startles me.