dilogy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dilogy (countable and uncountable, plural dilogies)
- Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
- Repetition of a word or phrase.
- (countable, nonstandard) A series of two related works.
- 1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167:
- why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama
- 1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies in Aeschylus, page 189:
- another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy
- 2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, page 71:
- Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)
Synonyms
[edit]- (two related works): duology (nonstandard)
Related terms
[edit]- monology (1)
- trilogy (3)
- tetralogy (4)
- pentalogy (5)
- hexalogy (6)
- heptalogy (7)
- octalogy (8)
- ennealogy (9)
- decalogy (10)
- polylogy (2+)