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单词 dittography
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Definition of dittography in English:

dittography

nounPlural dittographies dɪˈtɒɡrəfidɪˈtɑɡrəfi
  • A mistaken repetition of a letter, word, or phrase by a copyist.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some scholars suggest the phrase may be the result of dittography from the earlier phrase ‘to each people according to its language.’
    • It has therefore been left out as a possible dittography, but certainly not translateable.
    • On the facing pages of chapter 1 is an exact transcription of the codex, haplographies, dittographies, misspellings, lacunae, and all.
    • Like almost every other hit I clicked on, it seems to me an example of inadvertent duplication (dittography).
    • The initial mem found in the MT may have been added accidentally due to dittography with the final mem on the immediately preceding word.
    • Haplography is writing once what should be written twice, such as defendum rather than defendendum, and dittography is the opposite.
    • Jeremiah 15: 13-14 are a dittography of Jeremiah 17: 3f.
    • The many dittographies in the manuscript have been faithfully transcribed by Hamdan Hassan, and have been retained in the MCP text.
    • Examples of the second type are treatments on dittography, haplography, harmonization, and itacisms.

Derivatives

  • dittographic

  • adjectivedɪtəˈɡrafɪk
    • Our great scholars have never forgotten their Isaian dittographic dictum.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His close observations of dittographic tendencies and carving mistakes do suggest the participation of rushed or less skilled carvers.
      • In that case, the final nun is virtually dittographic with the vav that appears at the beginning of the following word.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek dittos 'double' + -graphy.

 
 

Definition of dittography in US English:

dittography

noundiˈtäɡrəfēdɪˈtɑɡrəfi
  • A mistaken repetition of a letter, word, or phrase by a copyist.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The initial mem found in the MT may have been added accidentally due to dittography with the final mem on the immediately preceding word.
    • Haplography is writing once what should be written twice, such as defendum rather than defendendum, and dittography is the opposite.
    • Examples of the second type are treatments on dittography, haplography, harmonization, and itacisms.
    • Like almost every other hit I clicked on, it seems to me an example of inadvertent duplication (dittography).
    • The many dittographies in the manuscript have been faithfully transcribed by Hamdan Hassan, and have been retained in the MCP text.
    • It has therefore been left out as a possible dittography, but certainly not translateable.
    • On the facing pages of chapter 1 is an exact transcription of the codex, haplographies, dittographies, misspellings, lacunae, and all.
    • Jeremiah 15: 13-14 are a dittography of Jeremiah 17: 3f.
    • Some scholars suggest the phrase may be the result of dittography from the earlier phrase ‘to each people according to its language.’

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek dittos ‘double’ + -graphy.

 
 
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