pleonasm

Significat (Anglès)

1. (rhetoric, uncountable) Redundancy in wording.
2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Conceptes

pleonasme

Sinònims

redundancy

tautology

redundance

repetition

superfluity

verbiage

Traduccions

pléonasme

pleonasmo

Pleonasmus

pleonasmo

πλεονασμός

pleonasmo

pleonasme

haşiv

superfetazione

Pléonasme

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).