pleonasm
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)
- (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
- 1939, John Nicholas Hritzu, The Style of the Letters of St. Jerome, Catholic University of America Press, page 5:
- St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
- 1989, Harold Riley, The Making of Mark: An Exploration, Mercer University Press, page 219:
- Indeed, pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck2 and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
- (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editredundancy in wording
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phrase involving pleonasm
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See also
edit- auxesis
- battology
- perissology
- tautology
- English pleonastic compounds
- Pleonastic compounds by language
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pleonasm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
editAnagrams
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French pléonasme.
Noun
editpleonasm n (plural pleonasme)
Declension
editDeclension of pleonasm
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pleonasm | pleonasmul | (niște) pleonasme | pleonasmele |
genitive/dative | (unui) pleonasm | pleonasmului | (unor) pleonasme | pleonasmelor |
vocative | pleonasmule | pleonasmelor |
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