pleonasm

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Redundancy in wording. rhetoric,uncountable
    — St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
  2. A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. countable

词形变化

pleonasms plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pleonasmic
相关词
circumlocution pleonastic auxesis battology perissology tautology English pleonastic compounds Pleonastic compounds by language
并列词
ellipsis

词源

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).
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