Meanings
plural dilogies
- countableuncountableRepetition of a word or phrase.
- countablenonstandardA series of two related works.
why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama
1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 1672 more examples
another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy
1983, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, Studies in Aeschylus, page 189Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)
2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, page 71Synonyms: duology
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA series of two related works.
Origin
- Ancient Greekδιλογία“repetition”
- Latindilogia
- Englishdilogy
From Latin dilogia, from Ancient Greek διλογία (dilogía, “repetition”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).
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French dilogie
- dilogieA set of two works of art that are connected
Portuguese bilogia
- bilogiaA set of two works of art that are connected
Spanish bilogía
- bilogíaA set of two works of art that are connected
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