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^[1]:

     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.

Translations

repeating words in immediate succession

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

  Ancient: ἐπίζευξις f (epízeuxis)

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• Icelandic: síklifun f
• Latin: epizeuxis f

Further reading

• epizeuxis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Silva Rhetoricae