hendiadys

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén), stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”) + διά (diá, “through”) + δύο (dúo, “two”), “one [idea] through two [words]”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛnˈdaɪ.ədɪs/

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Noun

Examples
“big and bad” “fat and happy” “safe and sound” “smiles and giggly” “nice and warm” (for “nicely warm”) “sound and fury” (for “furious sound”) “come and get it” (for “come get it”)

hendiadys (plural hendiadyses)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.

   Coordinate term: hendiatris

   • 1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327:

     Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.

   • 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:

     Each illustrates a different facet of verbal hendiadys in English.

Translations

figure of speech

• Albanian: hendiadyoini
• Catalan: hendíadis (ca) m
• Czech: hendiadys
• Dutch: hendiadys (nl)
• Esperanto: hendiadino
• French: hendiadys (fr) m, hendiadyin m
• German: Hendiadyoin (de) n
• Hungarian: hendiadisz, hendiadioin
• Irish: einniad m
• Italian: endiade (it) f
• Japanese: 二詞一意 (nishiichii)
• Norwegian: hendiadyoin
• Portuguese: hendíadis (pt) f
• Russian: гендиа́дис (ru) m (gendiádis)
• Spanish: hendíadis f, endíadis f

Further reading

• hendiadys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• hendiadyin

Noun

hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)

1. (rhetoric) hendiadys

Further reading

• “hendiadys”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.