hendiadys
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Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén), stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”) + διά (diá, “through”) + δύο (dúo, “two”), “one [idea] through two [words]”.
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hendiadys (plural hendiadyses)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
- Coordinate term: hendiatris
- 1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327:
- Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.
- 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:
- Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English.
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figure of speech
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Noun[edit]
hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)
Further reading[edit]
- “hendiadys”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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