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homeoteleuton

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ho⋅me⋅o⋅tel⋅eu⋅ton

[hoh-mee-oh-tel-yuh-ton]
–noun Rhetoric.
a series of words with the same or similar endings.

Origin:
1580–90; < Gk, n. use of neut. of homoiotéleutos ending alike, equiv. to homoio- homeo- + -teleutos, adj. der. of teleut end, close
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