hendiadys

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛnˈdaɪ.ədɪs/

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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.

• hendiadys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• hendiadyin

hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)

1. (rhetoric) hendiadys

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