Etymology

homeoteleuton

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Today it means: The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον
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  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromὁμοιοτέλευτον“like ending”
  2. English todayhomeoteleuton

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.