epizeuxis

English

Etymology

From modern Latin epizeuxis, from Ancient Greek ἐπίζευξις (epízeuxis, “a fastening upon”), from ἐπιζευγνύναι (epizeugnúnai), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + ζευγνύναι (zeugnúnai, “to yoke”).

Noun

Examples
"O horror, horror, horror!" Shakespeare, Macbeth (II iii.)

epizeuxis (countable and uncountable, plural epizeuxes)

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in immediate succession for emphasis.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 78:

     An Epizeuxis twice a word repeats,
     And graces thus the theme on which it treats.

   • 2020 February 17, Richard Cooke, “Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet”, in Wired:

     Wikipedia weds this ranging interest to the kind of pertinence where Larry David's “Pretty, pretty good!” is given as an example of rhetorical epizeuxis.

   • 2022, Clive Bloom, The Palgrave Handbook of Gothic Origins, page 39:

     'O horror, horror, horror', Macduff cries, his epizeuxis reflecting a lack in the symbolic order itself.

Translations

repeating words in immediate succession

• Czech: epizeuxis f
• German: Epizeuxis f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐπίζευξις f (epízeuxis)

• Icelandic: síklifun f
• Latin: epizeuxis f
• Vietnamese: điệp từ

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Further reading

• epizeuxis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épizeuxis.

Noun

epizeuxis n (uncountable)

1. epizeuxis

Declension

declension of epizeuxis (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) epizeuxis	epizeuxisul
genitive/dative	(unui) epizeuxis	epizeuxisului
vocative	epizeuxisule