"homeoteleuton" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: homeoteleuta [plural], homeoteleutons [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|grc|ὁμοιοτέλευτον||like ending}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”) Head templates: {{en-noun|homeoteleuta|s}} homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)
  1. The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
    Sense id: en-homeoteleuton-en-noun-51I9YiGU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 16 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.
    Sense id: en-homeoteleuton-en-noun-2CYtE6n4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: homoeoteleuton, homoioteleuton

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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