homeoteleuton
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).
Noun
homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)
- The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
- The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.