homoioteleuton

homoioteleuton (plural homoioteleutons or homoioteleuta)

1. Alternative form of homeoteleuton.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton).

• IPA^(key): /xɔ.mɔ.i.ɔ.tɛˈlɛw.tɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɛwtɔn
• Syllabification: ho‧mo‧i‧o‧te‧leu‧ton

homoioteleuton m inan

1. (rhetoric) homeoteleuton (repetition of endings in words)
2. homeoteleuton (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)