pleonast
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pleonast (plural pleonasts)
- (rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
- 1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:
- the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables
References
[edit]- “pleonast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French pléonaste.
Noun
[edit]pleonast n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of pleonast (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) pleonast | pleonastul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) pleonast | pleonastului |
| vocative | pleonastule | |