different between alliteration vs palindrome

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

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos, “running back again”), from ????? (pálin, “back, again, back again”) + ?????? (drómos, “running, race, racecourse”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd???m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?nd?o?m/

Noun

palindrome (plural palindromes)

1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

   “Rise to vote sir” is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome.

   Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes.

2. (by extension) A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. (genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand

Derived terms

• (genetics): massive palindrome

Translations

Coordinate terms

• aibohphobia
• anagram
• semordnilap

Further reading

• palindrome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pramindole

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palíndromos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.l??.d??m/

Noun

palindrome m (plural palindromes)

1. palindrome

Further reading

• “palindrome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

palindrome f

1. feminine plural of palindromo