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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pleonasmus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós).
Pronunciation
Noun
pléonasme m (plural pléonasmes)
- (linguistics) pleonasm, redundancy
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