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单词 parelcon
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parelconn.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin parelcon; Greek παρέλκων.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin parelcon (in rhetoric, as a subdivision of pleonasm) something redundant or superfluous (1524 in a British source) and its etymon Hellenistic Greek παρέλκων superfluous word or syllable, use as noun of ancient Greek παρέλκων , present participle of παρέλκειν to draw aside or along, spin out, prolong, in Hellenistic Greek also to be redundant < παρα- para- prefix1 + ἕλκειν to draw, drag (see helctic adj.).
Grammar and Rhetoric. Obsolete.
The use of two words where one would normally stand; the addition of superfluous words. Also: the addition of an extra syllable to the end of a word.
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1534 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge gathered oute of Terence f. 144 And it [sc. the particle sis] is moche vsed for an aduerbe of exhortynge, or elles otherwhyles for a voyce expletiue, soo that it be parelcon.
1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Fiii Parelcon, when a sillable is added to the ende of a worde, or when two wordes are ioyned together in one.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 177 Parelcon... A figure when a syllable, or whole word is added to another in the end of it.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Parelcon, Protraction, a figure wherein a word or syllable is added to the end of another, as Numnam, Etiamnum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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