homeoteleuton

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).

Noun

homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)

  1. The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
    • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91:
      Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
      With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.
  2. The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.
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