different between verbose vs pleonasm

English

Etymology

From Latin verb?sus (“prolix, wordy, verbose”) + English -ose (suffix meaning ‘full of; like’). Verb?sus is derived from verbum (“word”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh?- (“to say, speak”)) + -?sus (suffix meaning ‘full of, overly, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??b??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /v??bo?s/
• Rhymes: -??s
• Hyphenation: verb?ose

Adjective

verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)

1. Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:verbose

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:concise
2. (computing) Producing detailed output for diagnostic purposes.

Derived terms

• verbosely
• verboseness

Related terms

• verbosity

Translations

References

Further reading

• verbose mode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• verbosity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• observe, obverse

Italian

Adjective

verbose

1. feminine plural of verboso

Latin

Adjective

verb?se

1. vocative masculine singular of verb?sus

References

• verbose in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• verbose in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• verbose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pleonasmós), from ???????? (pleonáz?, “I am superfluous”), from ?????? (pleí?n, “more”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pli?.?.næz.?m/

Noun

pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)

1. (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Coordinate terms

• ellipsis

Derived terms

• pleonasmic

Related terms

• pleonastic

Translations

See also

• auxesis
• battology
• perissology
• tautology
• English pleonastic compounds
• Pleonastic compounds by language

Further reading

• pleonasm at OneLook Dictionary Search
• pleonasm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• neoplasm, planemos

Romanian

Etymology

From French pléonasme.

Noun

pleonasm n (plural pleonasme)

1. pleonasm

Declension