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repetition
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p??t???n/
Noun
repetition (countable and uncountable, plural repetitions)
- The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
- Synonym: rep
Synonyms
- (act of repeating): See Thesaurus:repetition
- (instance of repeating): recurrence, reiteration; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence
Related terms
- repetitious
Translations
See also
- have seen this movie
Etymology 2
re- +? petition
Alternative forms
- re-petition
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?p??t???n/
Verb
repetition (third-person singular simple present repetitions, present participle repetitioning, simple past and past participle repetitioned)
- To petition again.
- 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.
- 2011, Anneke Campbell, Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
Anagrams
- petitioner
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin repet?ti?.
Noun
repetition c
- repetition; the act of repeating
- rehearsal
Declension
Derived terms
- generalrepetition
Related terms
- repetera
Further reading
- repetition in Svensk ordbok.
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epistrophe
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin epistroph?, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ????????? (epistroph?).
Noun
epistrophe (plural epistrophes)
- (rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
- Synonyms: epiphora, antistrophe
- Antonym: anaphora
Further reading
- epistrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (epistroph?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /e?pis.tro.p?e?/, [??p?s?t???p?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e?pis.tro.fe/, [??pist???f?]
Noun
epistroph? f (genitive epistroph?s); first declension
- (rhetoric) a returning
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- epistrophe in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- epistrophe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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