Dictionary

hendiadys en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /hɛnˈdaɪ.ədɪs/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén), stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”) + διά (diá, “through”) + δύο (dúo, “two”), “one [idea] through two [words]”.

Meanings

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
   • Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English. 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:
   • Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain. 1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327:

Forms

Coordinates

hendiatris

Deriveds

hendiadic

Translations (18)

de Hendiadyoin (figure of speech) · cs hendiadys (figure of speech) · es hendíadis (figure of speech) · sq hendiadyoini (figure of speech) · nl hendiadys (figure of speech) · hu hendiadisz (figure of speech) · no hendiadyoin (figure of speech) · ru гендиа́дис (figure of speech) · it endiade (figure of speech) · eo hendiadino (figure of speech) · ga einniad (figure of speech) · es endíadis (figure of speech) · fr hendiadyin (figure of speech) · hu hendiadioin (figure of speech) · ja 二詞一意 (figure of speech) · fr hendiadys (figure of speech) · pt hendíadis (figure of speech) · ca hendíadis (figure of speech)