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dilogy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɪləd͡ʒi/

Etymology

From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Repetition of a word or phrase.
  3. (countable, nonstandard) A series of two related works.
    • another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy 1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies in Aeschylus, page 189:
    • Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839) 2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, page 71:
    • why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama 1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167:

Forms

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Relateds

monology (Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.) · ennealogy · hexalogy · octalogy · tetralogy · decalogy · pentalogy · polylogy (2+) · heptalogy · trilogy (A series of two related works.)

Synonyms

duology (two related works)

Translations (4)

es bilogía (A set of two works of art that are connected) · pt bilogia (A set of two works of art that are connected) · fr dilogie (A set of two works of art that are connected) · gl biloxía (A set of two works of art that are connected)