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epanadiplosis

epanadiplosis noun: a figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.

Noun

epanadiplosis (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.
    Synonyms:
    epanalepsis

Synonyms of epanadiplosis

Origin of epanadiplosis

Learned borrowing from Latin epanadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπαναδίπλωσις (epanadíplōsis, “doubling, folding”).

Questions about epanadiplosis

What does epanadiplosis mean?
Epanadiplosis means a figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.
What part of speech is epanadiplosis?
Epanadiplosis is a noun.

Words near epanadiplosis in the dictionary

  1. epalon
  2. epalons
  3. epalpebrate
  4. epalrestat
  5. Epaminondan
  6. epanadiplosis
  7. epanados
  8. epanalepsis
  9. epanaleptic
  10. epanaphora
  11. epanastrophe

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