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Meaning of "anacoluthon" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANACOLUTHON

From Late Latin, from Greek anakolouthon, from anakolouthos not consistent, from an- + akolouthos following.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANACOLUTHON

anacoluthon  [ˌænəkəˈluːθɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANACOLUTHON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anacoluthon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANACOLUTHON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Anacoluthon

An anacoluthon is an unexpected shift in grammar. Anacolutha often are sentences interrupted midway, where a change in the syntactical structure of the sentence occurs following the interruption. An example is the Italian proverb "The good stuff – think about it." This proverb urges us to choose the most qualitative alternative.

Definition of anacoluthon in the English dictionary

The definition of anacoluthon in the dictionary is a construction that involves the change from one grammatical sequence to another within a single sentence; an example of anacoluthia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANACOLUTHON


benthon
ˈbɛnθɒn
drunkathon
ˈdrʌŋkəˌθɒn
Phlegethon
ˈflɛɡɪˌθɒn
phonathon
ˈfəʊnəˌθɒn
radiothon
ˈraɪdɪəʊˌθɒn
synthon
ˈsɪnˌθɒn
telethon
ˈtɛləˌθɒn
trilithon
traɪˈlɪθɒn
walkathon
ˈwɔːkəˌθɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANACOLUTHON

anachronistic
anachronistically
anachronous
anachronously
anaclastic
anaclinal
anaclisis
anaclitic
anacolutha
anacoluthia
anacoluthic
anacoluthically
anaconda
anacoustic
Anacreon
Anacreontic
Anacreontically
anacruses
anacrusis
anacrustic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANACOLUTHON

autochthon
Brython
carpet python
Comrades Marathon
half-marathon
marathon
Melanchthon
Phaethon
python
rock python
talkathon
the Comrades Marathon
thon
ultramarathon

Synonyms and antonyms of anacoluthon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anacoluthon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANACOLUTHON

Find out the translation of anacoluthon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anacoluthon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anacoluthon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

anacoluthon
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anacoluthon
570 millions of speakers

English

anacoluthon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

anacoluthon
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

anacoluthon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

anacoluthon
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anacoluto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাক্যের পদবিন্যাসে পারস্পর্যহীনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anacoluthe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anacoluthon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anakoluth
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

anacoluthon
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anacoluthon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anacoluthon
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

anacoluthon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இலக்கணத் தொடர்பற்ற வாக்கியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अॅनाकोलेथॉन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anakolüt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anacoluto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anacoluthon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

anacoluthon
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anacoluthon
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

anacoluthon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anacoluthon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anacoluthon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anacoluthon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anacoluthon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANACOLUTHON»

The term «anacoluthon» is used very little and occupies the 162.932 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANACOLUTHON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «anacoluthon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «anacoluthon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anacoluthon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANACOLUTHON»

Discover the use of anacoluthon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anacoluthon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Anacoluthon is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?' (Matt. 7:9). Other definitions: 1. Fowler (p. 393) speaks of nominativus pendens, 'a form of anacoluthon in which a sentence is begun with what appears to be the ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
In them there are often lapses, which can be generally categorized as types of anacoluthon. Anacoluthon occurs wherever the sentence undergoes a change of construction that leaves one part without proper government. It is well to be strict  ...
Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, J. N. Adams, 2005
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Paul's Line of Thought in 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10
I do not here find the view of Bornkamm on Pauline anacoluthon in Rom illuminating. According to Bornkamm, the anacoluthon is an "expression" of a theologically important thing.10 The view of Bornkamm may be right but it does not help me ...
Fredrik Lindgård, 2005
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Mastering Discourse: The Politics of Intellectual Culture
ability to represent Troilus and Cressida and, by implication, all narrative in the figure of anacoluthon simultaneously shifts and reaffirms Wimsatt's desire to represent the organic form of harmonious totalities by the metaphor figured in ...
Paul A. Bové, 1992
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The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America
14 Miller's ability to represent Troilus and Cressida and, by implication, all narrative in the figure of anacoluthon simultaneously shifts and reaffirms Wimsatt's desire to represent the organic form of harmonious totalities by the metaphor figured ...
Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, Wallace Martin, 1983
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Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida ...
Anacoluthon is a technical term of rhetoric; it names the interruption of one syntactical pattern, one grammatical construction by another before the first is allowed to complete itself. Like so much else in this text, it is a deviation, a rupture or a ...
Kevin Newmark, 2012
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A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities
Anacoluthon. 1. The AnacohUJion (araxoXov&oy) is a construction, of which the end does not grammatically correspond to the beginning ; and which is nevertheless intentionally employed by writers. Here, however, the learner must be ...
Philipp Buttmann, 1833
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Acts of Narrative
There is no need to mobilize all the resources of semantics or etymology in order to associate the figure of the acolyte, which accompanies, with its negative, the anacoluthon, which does not accompany. Think, for example, of the definition that  ...
Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman, 2003
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Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew
96 According to the deÀnition of these two scholars these are cases of anacoluthon,97 and they raise two questions: (1) Is anacoluthon in general to be considered a type of parenthesis?; (2) Are the interrupted relative clauses attested in the ...
Tamar Zewi, 2007
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Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools ...
Anacoluthon (from a privative and dxoXuv&og, -ov, following) is a figure used to denote a change in the construction. It takes place when the construction with which the sentence begins, is not continued through it, but is changed into another, ...
Raphael Kühner, 1844

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANACOLUTHON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anacoluthon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Can Radio 3 escape the digital squeeze?
How does this link up with the anacoluthon sentence? (No, I hadn't a clue either.) Poems are negatives, says Armitage; they describe the ... «Spectator.co.uk, Oct 14»
2
12-year-old from Friendswood advances to finals of Scripps National …
The first vocabulary test had some words anyone would know, such as tranquil, but the second one included stumpers such as anacoluthon ... «KHOU, May 13»
3
Minds Are The Strangest Thing
Kelman leans far too heavily on this effect—anacoluthon, the switching of grammatical structure mid-sentence, is the rhetorical name for it—and ... «New Yorker, May 13»
4
First lady bewitches Nicaraguans
Murillo's daily soliloquies are an unscripted anacoluthon of loosely associated thoughts related to peace, love, happiness, and the Virgin Mary, ... «Nicaragua Dispatch, Oct 12»
5
This great Diamond Jubilee had a missing ingredient
Anacoluthon is the sudden change of syntax in a sentence. Boris Johnson, a keen classicist, is an expert at his own form of anacoluthon ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 12»
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'Uncle Vanya,' From Target Margin Theater, at Here
Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished ... «New York Times, May 12»
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A Schnabel Art Show Monologue
ANACOLUTHON comes from the Greek words for “not” and “following.” It applies to both stream-of-consciousness writing and conversations ... «New York Times, Dec 11»
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Hard Times For Unscientific Blogging
Times are so hard that Anthony Watts was recently reduced to writing a very lengthy anacoluthon-style dust-speck-spotting article about how Al ... «Science 2.0, Oct 11»
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Mitt Romney drops the H bomb — Harvard blues
... the Horrible H — what if there's an emergency that requires somebody to use the word “anacoluthon” in a sentence? But you can't let it define ... «Washington Post, Sep 11»
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How to: archive and back up photos
... overshepherd ladypalms radly unspeedily stumbled quinoas passworts ebonized cabbala article anacoluthon pyroxylic bedwarfed rotometer ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anacoluthon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anacoluthon>. Apr 2024 ».
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