Etymology

tricolon crescens

Today it means: A "rising" tricolon, its parts increasing in magnitude or intensity towards a climax on the third part Full definition →

Latin crēscēns
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromcrēscēns“increasing, growing, rising”
  2. English todaytricolon crescens

From tricolon (“a rhetorical device”) and Latin crēscēns (“increasing, growing, rising”).

Words from the same roots

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crescent

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