πλεονασμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “to be superfluous”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ple.o.naz.mós/ → /ple.o.nazˈmos/ → /ple.o.nazˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ple.o.naz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ple.o.nazˈmos/

Noun

πλεονασμός • (pleonasmós) m (genitive πλεονασμοῦ); second declension

1. superabundance, excess
2. surplus
3. usury
4. pleonasm (use of redundant words)
5. lengthening of clause
6. repetition

Declension

Second declension of ὁ πλεονᾰσμός; τοῦ πλεονᾰσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πλεονᾰσμός ho pleonasmós	τὼ πλεονᾰσμώ tṑ pleonasmṓ	οἱ πλεονᾰσμοί hoi pleonasmoí
Genitive	τοῦ πλεονᾰσμοῦ toû pleonasmoû	τοῖν πλεονᾰσμοῖν toîn pleonasmoîn	τῶν πλεονᾰσμῶν tôn pleonasmôn
Dative	τῷ πλεονᾰσμῷ tôi pleonasmôi	τοῖν πλεονᾰσμοῖν toîn pleonasmoîn	τοῖς πλεονᾰσμοῖς toîs pleonasmoîs
Accusative	τὸν πλεονᾰσμόν tòn pleonasmón	τὼ πλεονᾰσμώ tṑ pleonasmṓ	τοὺς πλεονᾰσμούς toùs pleonasmoús
Vocative	πλεονᾰσμέ pleonasmé	πλεονᾰσμώ pleonasmṓ	πλεονᾰσμοί pleonasmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• → Esperanto: pleonasmo
• → Ido: pleonasmo
• → Late Latin: pleonasmus
  • → Aragonese: pleonasmo (learned)
  • → Czech: pleonasmus
  • → English: pleonasm
  • → Finnish: pleonasmi
  • → French: pléonasme (learned)
  • → Galician: pleonasmo (learned)
  • → German: Pleonasmus
  • → Hungarian: pleonazmus
  • → Italian: pleonasmo (learned)
  • → Polish: pleonazm
  • → Portuguese: pleonasmo (learned)
  • → Romanian: pleonasm (learned)
  • → Spanish: pleonasmo (learned)
• → Russian: плеона́зм (pleonázm)
  • → Kazakh: плеоназм (pleonazm)
• → Ukrainian: плеона́зм (pleonázm)

Further reading

• πλεονασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πλεονασμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “πλεονασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press