palilogia

English

Noun

palilogia

1. (rhetoric) Deliberate repetition of a word or a phrase for the sake of emphasis.
   • 1970, Macdonald Critchley, Aphasiology and other aspects of language‎^[1]:

     First, there is palilogia, which is an idiosyncrasy of certain rhetoricians and public speakers who deliberately repeat a word or phrase or sentence for the sake of emphasis.

Italian

Etymology

From pali- +‎ -logia.

Noun

palilogia f (plural palilogie)

1. palilogy (repetition of a word for rhetorical effect)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλιλογία (palilogía, “palilogy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.liˈlo.ɡi.a/, [pälʲɪˈɫ̪ɔɡiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.liˈlo.d͡ʒi.a/, [päliˈlɔːd͡ʒiä]

Noun

palilogia f (genitive palilogiae); first declension

1. palilogy

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	palilogia	palilogiae
genitive	palilogiae	palilogiārum
dative	palilogiae	palilogiīs
accusative	palilogiam	palilogiās
ablative	palilogiā	palilogiīs
vocative	palilogia	palilogiae

Descendants

• English: palilogy

References

• “palilogia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palilogia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.