Pronounced: dih-TERJ, verb
Notes: I didn’t know this was a word, but you probably can guess the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word homeoteluton is “a repetition of the same or similar endings in a sequence of words”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Greek words homoio (similiar) and teletos, which came from teleute (end). Our word can also refer to scribal error when a copyist’s eye skips to a word with the same ending on a subsequent line.
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