anadiplosis

Learned borrowing from Latin anadiplōsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

• IPA^(key): /ˌænədəˈploʊsɪs/
• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

anadiplosis (countable and uncountable, plural anadiploses)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase used at the end of a clause or expression is repeated near the beginning of the next clause or expression.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Anadiplosis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 80:

     Anadiplosis ends the former line
     With what the next does for its first design.

Frequently combined with (but distinct from) climax, so that each step of the anadiplosis typically increases in magnitude or rhetorical force, with the effect of making the last term more powerful by comparison.

• Silva Rhetoricae

Borrowed from Latin anadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀναδίπλωσις (anadíplōsis).

• IPA^(key): /anadiˈplosis/ [a.na.ð̞iˈplo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: a‧na‧di‧plo‧sis

anadiplosis f (plural anadiplosis)

1. (rhetoric) anadiplosis

• “anadiplosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024