hendiadys

hendiadys

English

Alternative forms

• hendiaduo

Etymology

Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén), stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”) + διά (diá, “through”) + δύο (dúo, “two”), “one [idea] through two [words]”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛnˈdaɪ.ədɪs/

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Noun

Examples
“safe and sound” “nice and warm” (for “nicely warm”) “sound and fury” (for “furious sound”) “come and get it” (for “come get it”)

hendiadys (plural hendiadyses)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.

   Coordinate term: hendiatris

   • 1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327:

     Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.

Translations

figure of speech

Albanian: hendiadyoini Catalan: hendíadis (ca) m Czech: hendiadys Dutch: hendiadys (nl) Esperanto: hendiadino French: hendiadys (fr) m, hendiadyin m German: Hendiadyoin (de) n Hungarian: hendiadisz, hendiadioin Irish: einniad m Italian: endiade (it) f Japanese: 二詞一意 (nishiichii) Norwegian: hendiadyoin Portuguese: hendíadis (pt) f Russian: гендиа́дис (ru) m (gendiádis) Spanish: hendíadis f, endíadis f

Further reading

• hendiadys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Alternative forms

• hendiadyin

Noun

hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)

1. (rhetoric) hendiadys

Further reading

• “hendiadys”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.