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PRONUNCIATION OF DITTOLOGY

dittology  [dɪˈtəʊlɒdʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DITTOLOGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dittology 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 DITTOLOGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dittology in the English dictionary

The definition of dittology in the dictionary is an interpretation of one text in two ways.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DITTOLOGY


anagoge
ˈænəˌɡɒdʒɪ
anagogy
ˈænəˌɡɒdʒɪ
bodgie
ˈbɒdʒɪ
dodgy
ˈdɒdʒɪ
mystagogy
ˈmɪstəˌɡɒdʒɪ
paralogy
pəˈrælɒdʒɪ
pentalogy
pɛnˈtælɒdʒɪ
podgy
ˈpɒdʒɪ
roentgenology
ˌrɒntɡəˈnɒlɒdʒɪ
splodgy
ˈsplɒdʒɪ
stodgy
ˈstɒdʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DITTOLOGY

ditrochee
ditsiness
dittander
dittanies
dittany
dittay
ditties
ditto
ditto mark
ditto sign
dittographies
dittography
ditty
ditty bag
ditty box
ditz
ditzier
ditziest
ditziness
ditzy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DITTOLOGY

archaeology
astrology
biology
biotechnology
ecology
genealogy
geology
information technology
methodology
microbiology
mythology
neurology
oncology
pathology
pharmacology
physiology
psychology
sociology
technology
terminology
theology

Synonyms and antonyms of dittology in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dittology» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DITTOLOGY

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

Translator English - Chinese

dittology
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dittology
570 millions of speakers

English

dittology
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dittology
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dittology
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dittology
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dittology
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dittology
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dittology
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dittologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dittology
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dittology
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dittology
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dittologi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dittology
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரே ஏட்டிற்கு இரு வெவ்வேறு விளக்கங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आहारविद्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dittology
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dittology
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dittology
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dittology
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dittology
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dittology
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dittology
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dittology
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dittology
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dittology

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DITTOLOGY»

The term «dittology» is used very little and occupies the 165.964 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DITTOLOGY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DITTOLOGY»

Discover the use of dittology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dittology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
The inverse is known as haplography. dittology Accidental or conventionalized repetition of a syllable, e.g. dittolology or preventive ~ preventative. The opposite process is known as haplology. cago, IL. 1954. 10.146-62. Nida, E. 1946.
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006
2
The Avestan Vowels
Instead of a dittography we may be dealing with a case of 'dittology'. The advantage of this explanation is that the first half of verse (d) would then be tetrasyllabic, as usual in Y 48. We can interpret vdrdziid as the 2s. prs.ipv.act. of vdrdziia-.
Michiel Arnoud Cor de Vaan, 2003
3
The Targum of Zephaniah: Manuscripts and Commentary
11.785 The unique pair ריסה-הנּפּ is an example of a reversal dittology that is linked to previous usage. While before, they were used in the context of punishment (1:16, 3:6, תֹֺנּפּ; 3:11, ריסא), now they are employed in the context of salvation.
‎2009
4
The Troubadour Tensos and Partimens: A Critical Edition
In particular, H tries to make the line readable by bringing pus forward to produce a subordinate causal conjunction (pus quill). In addition its introduction of nius generates the verbal dittology ama nius degna. The second part of the dittology ...
Ruth Harvey, Linda M. Paterson, Anna Radaelli
5
Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy ...
corollaries are likewise given ideological content, however unlikely they might seem as candidates for such an attribution; these are binary and ternary sentence structure, and synonymic dittology. The first, noted by Michele Cortelazzo and ...
Barbara Spackman, 1996
6
Repetition in Arabic Discourse: Paradigms, Syntagms, and the ...
Although the phenomenon Valesio has studied does seem to be the same as what is under examination in this chapter, and although, as Valesio shows, the term "dittology" has firm etymological roots in ancient Greek, I have chosen the less ...
Barbara Johnstone, 1991
7
Special Publication...: Vedic Variants Series
Also some of the variants between mam and ma, when followed by a vowel, seem to involve haplology or dittology (double or single syllables ma or ma-); in this connexion some of these variants were listed in W 2 §812, but that list was ...
Linguistic Society of America, 1934
8
Commentary
from memory on a secondary point in an article taken from a book which does not pretend to scholarship is perhaps debatable; definitely so is Mrs. Jacobs' extension of the stricture to my discussion of "dittology" in the classic Yiddish, ...
9
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
OED lists 8 and details 4 words beginning haplo. haplo graphy: writing one letter, syllable, or word where two belong; the reverse is dittography. haplology ( opposite of dittology): making one sound instead of two, sometimes a cause of ...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009
10
Memoirs of the life, times and writings, of the Rev. Thomas ...
And whereas, several years ago, thinking on the sacred name JEHOVAH, I had fallen into a notion of its being a dittology, standing for JEHOVAH ELOHIM ; and had written in the essay on Genesis, chap. xv. 2, let. f. lhat " Elohim" is never found ...
Thomas Boston, 1852

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