English Explanatory Dictionary

isocolon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables.

Word forms

isocolon isocolons isocola

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἰσόκωλον (isókōlon), neuter of ἰσόκωλος (isókōlos), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and κῶλον (kôlon, “member, clause”). By surface analysis, iso- + colon.

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