pléonasme

See also: pleonasme

Contents

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ple.ɔ.nasm/

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin pleonasmus, from Ancient Greek πλεονασμός (pleonasmós), from πλεονάζω (pleonázō, “I am superfluous”), from πλείων (pleíōn, “more”).

NounEdit

pléonasme m (plural pléonasmes)

1. (linguistics) pleonasm, redundancy
2. insults; hurtful remarks

Further readingEdit

• “pléonasme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).