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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ploce en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈplɒsi/
  • /ˈpləʊsi/
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Etymology

From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) A figure of speech in which a word is repeated so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality.

Hyponyms

antanaclasis · polyptoton