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English
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).
Noun
homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)
- The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
1835, L Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, , Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 91:Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.
- The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.