Learned borrowing fromLate Latinpleonasmus, fromAncient Greekπλεονασμός(pleonasmós), fromπλεονάζω(pleonázō,“to be superfluous”), fromπλείων(pleíōn,“more”).[1]
pleonasm (countable anduncountable,pluralpleonasms)
- (uncountable, rhetoric)Redundancy in wording.
1989, Harold Riley,The Making of Mark: An Exploration,Mercer University Press,page219:Indeed,pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck2 and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."
- (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which areredundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
redundancy in wording
- Arabic:حَشْو m(ḥašw),إِطْنَاب (ar) m(ʔiṭnāb)
- Azerbaijani:pleonazm
- Belarusian:плеана́зм m(pljeanázm)
- Catalan:pleonasme m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:贅語 /赘语 (zh)(zhuìyǔ),贅詞 /赘词 (zh)(zhuìcí),贅字 /赘字(zhuìzì),冗詞 /冗词 (zh)(rǒngcí),冗語 /冗语 (zh)(rǒngyǔ)
- Czech:pleonasmus (cs) m
- Danish:pleonasme c
- Dutch:pleonasme (nl) n
- Esperanto:pleonasmo (eo)
- Finnish:pleonasmi (fi)
- French:pléonasme (fr) m
- German:Pleonasmus (de) m
- Greek:πλεονασμός (el) m(pleonasmós)
- Ancient Greek:πλεονασμός m(pleonasmós)
- Hungarian:pleonazmus (hu),szószaporítás (hu),szinonimahalmozás (hu)
- Ido:pleonasmo (io)
- Indonesian:pemborosan kata,pleonasme (id)
- Irish:iomarcaíocht focal f
- Italian:pleonasmo (it) m
- Japanese:冗語 (ja)(じょうご, jōgo)
- Kazakh:плеоназм(pleonazm)
- Kyrgyz:плеоназм(pleonazm)
- Latin:pleonasmos (la) m,pleonasmus (la) m
- Polish:pleonazm (pl)
- Portuguese:pleonasmo (pt) m
- Russian:плеона́зм (ru) m(pleonázm)
- Serbo-Croatian:плеоназам,pleonazam (sh)
- Spanish:pleonasmo (es) m
- Swedish:pleonasm (sv) c
- Tagalog:panigib
- Turkish:pleonazm,laf kalabalığı,haşiv (tr),doldurma (tr)
- Ukrainian:плеона́зм m(pleonázm)
- Welsh:gair llanw m
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phrase involving pleonasm
Borrowed fromFrenchpléonasme.
pleonasm n (pluralpleonasme)
- pleonasm
