| polyptoton | |
| po-lyp-to'-ton | from Gk. poly, "many" and ptotos, "falling" or ptosis, "[grammatical] case" |
| paragmenon | |
| traductio, adnominatio | |
| the tranlacer, many inflections |
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Repeating a word, but in a different form. Using a cognate of a given word in close proximity. | |
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| With eager
feeding food doth choke the feeder. —John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's Richard II 2.1.37 |
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| Sources: | Isidore 1.36.17; Fraunce (1588) 1.25; Putt. (1589) 213 ("traductio," "the tranlacer"); Day 1599 86 ("polyptoton," "traductio") | |
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