homeoteleuton

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UK/ˌhəʊmiˌəʊtəˈluːtən/UK/ˌhəʊmi.ətəˈluːtən/US/ˌhoʊmiˌoʊtəˈluːtən/US/ˌhoʊmi.ətəˈluːtən/

noun

The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.

OriginAncient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον →
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Meanings

nounhomeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)

plural homeoteleuta · plural homeoteleutons · alternative homoeoteleuton · alternative homoioteleuton

  1. rhetoricThe repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.

    Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.

    1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91
  2. The accidental omission when copying a text, of text between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words in between.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekὁμοιοτέλευτον“like ending”
  2. Englishhomeoteleuton

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

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APA

homeoteleuton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeoteleuton

MLA

“homeoteleuton.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeoteleuton. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homeoteleuton,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeoteleuton.

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