different between brachyology vs brachylogy

English

Alternative forms

• brachylogy, brachylogia

Etymology

From Late Latin brachiologia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachylogy.

Noun

brachyology (plural brachyologies)

1. (in discussions of grammar, especially of Biblical grammar) A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!").
   • 1840, Georg Benedikt Winer, A grammar of the idioms of the Greek language of the New Testament, translated from German to English by J. H. Agnew and O. G. Ebbeke, page 442:

     In the words [...of] Acts x. 39. there might be a brachyology, in case the sense were: we are witnesses of all that he did, of this also, that they put him to death. But such an omission is not necessary.

   • 1900 September, Ed. König, “Psalm cxviii 27b”, in James Hastings (editor), The Expository Times, Volume XI, Number 12, T. & T. Clark (publisher), page 566:

     So also in Ps 118²⁷ the preposition ??? might include the verb ‘come,’ which connects itself so naturally with ‘until,’ and a poetical mode of expression, which is naturally disposed to vivid brachyology (cf. Ps 118^{10b, 11b, 12b}), might discover a self-evident point in the circumstance that not the victims themselves but their blood, the precious part of them (Lv 17¹¹), is at last to touch the alter-horns.

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From brachy- +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (brakhulogía), from ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

Noun

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

See also

• ellipsis