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Polyptoton
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"...had, having, and in quest to have, extreme..." -- Shakespeare, Sonnet 129
What is the term for a repeated word or phrase in the same sentence?
Polyptoton, from the Greek, "multiple cases", "many inflections".
Would the auctioneer's chant "Going,going,gone!" be another
example?
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Fit casibus modo hoc schema, quod polyptoton vocant. / This figure may also be effected solely by change of cases, a proceeding which the Greeks call polyptoton. [Quintillianus IX.iii.37] From ptosis 'falling, (grammatical) case' from pipto 'to fall'.
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And here's me, fooled by Dr Bill's typo, thinking the post was going to be about transhydrogenic elements.
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