pleonasm

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

pléonasme

Pléonasme

Synonymes

redundancy

tautology

redundance

repetition

superfluity

verbiage

Traductions

pleonasmo

pleonasmo

Pleonasmus

πλεονασμός

pleonasmo

pleonasme

pleonasme

haşiv

pleonasmus

superfetazione

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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