ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Apokoinou

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Apokoinou is a noun meaning (rhetoric) A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentences. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

Meaning

(rhetoric) A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentences. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acoloutha, syntheton, parallelism, homoioptoton, apposition, synonymia.

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