epanodos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπάνοδος (epánodos), from ἐπ- (ep-) +‎ ἀνα- (ana-) +‎ ὁδός (hodós).

Noun

epanodos (countable and uncountable, plural epanodoses)

Examples
Bible, (2. Cor. 2. 15.16): For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life.

1. (rhetoric) The repetition of a sequence of words or phrases in reverse order.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 83:

     By Epanodos the same word moves its place,
     Takes first and last and also middle space.

2. Recapitulation of the main points in a discourse.