different between alliteration vs alliterate

English

Etymology

From New Latin all?ter?ti?, from all?ter?tus, from all?ter?, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and l?tera (“a letter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?t???e???n/, [??l?????e???n]
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

alliteration (countable and uncountable, plural alliterations)

1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
2. The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

Related terms

• alliterational
• alliterative
• alliteratively
• alliterativeness

Translations

See also

• assonance

Further reading

• alliteration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Back-formation from alliteration.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?.t?.?e?t/

Verb

alliterate (third-person singular simple present alliterates, present participle alliterating, simple past and past participle alliterated)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit alliteration.
2. (transitive) To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
   • 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated

     It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.

Synonyms

• (exhibit alliteration): alliterize

Translations