单词 | homoeoteleuton |
释义 | homoeoteleutonn. 1. A rhetorical figure consisting in the use of a series of words with the same or similar endings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > of similar endings homoeoteleuton1592 homoeoptoton1678 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Omoioteliton..when in like cases, words or sentences doe fal out togethers, as thus: Weeping, wailing, and her handes wringing she moued all..to pitty. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 2. The occurrence of similar endings in two neighbouring words, clauses, or lines of writing, as a source of error in copying. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > similar or confusable words > similarity causing mistakes in copying homoeoteleuton1861 homoeoarchy1883 homoeotel1883 homoeotopy1883 homoearchon1896 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > similarity of words, etc., resulting in error homoeoteleuton1861 homoeotel1883 homoeotopy1883 1861 F. H. A. Scrivener Introd. Crit. N. Test. (1883) 9 Or a genuine clause is lost by means of what is technically called Homœoteleuton..when the clause ends in the same word as closed the preceding sentence, and the transcriber's eye has wandered from the one to the other, to the entire omission of the whole passage lying between them. 1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 952 It [a clause] fell out..owing to one of the commonest causes of such omissions in manuscripts, a homoioteleuton. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > similar or confusable words homoeoteleft1652 word pair1886 confusable1979 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 59 Would wish Presbytery were of as empty a sound, as its homæoteleft, Blitery. ˌhomoeoteˈleutic adj. (a) having similar endings; (b) resulting, as an error, from homoeoteleuton. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > of words: having similar endings homoteleutic1821 homoeoteleutic1880 the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > of words: having similar endings > resulting as an error due to homoeoteleutic1880 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Ulpian Rules xxiv, in tr. Gaius Institutes 419 (note) Most eds...agree that the non..should be deleted. Hu. retains it by assuming a homeoteleutic omission. 1890 Athenæum 2 Aug. 161/3 A half-mythical rhyming history of the Norman dukes, written in homœoteleutic lines. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1592 |
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