hendiadys

English

Etymology

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”
  • “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.

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Noun

hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)

  1. (rhetoric) hendiadys

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