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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλοκή“complication”
- Latin · derived fromplŏcē
- English todayploce
From Latin plŏcē, from Ancient Greek πλοκή (plokḗ, “complication”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ploce
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
Latin plŏcē ← Ancient Greek πλοκή