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English
Etymology
From Latin epiphonema, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφώνημα (epiphṓnēma), from ἐπιφωνείν (epiphōneín, “call to”).
Pronunciation
Noun
epiphonema (plural epiphonemas or epiphonemata)
- (rhetoric) An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.
1759, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 2nd (1st London) edition, volume I, London: R and J Dodsley , published 1760, →OCLC, page 126:he would ſometimes break off in a ſudden and ſpirited Epiphonema, or rather Erotesis, raiſed a third, and ſometimes a full fifth, above the key of the diſcourſe, […]
Langley,
A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate,
→OCLC,
page 69:
Epiphonema, for a final clause,
An inference strong by sudden impulse draws.]
Translations
exclamation or reflection used at the end of an argument