Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The addition, by growth or accident, of a non-significant letter or syllable to the end of a word: opposed to prosthesis and apocope. Examples are len-d, amongs-t, agains-t, whils-t, tyran-t. Also called epithesis and ectasis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as
withouten forwithout . - noun (Med.), obsolete Coaptation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun grammar, prosody The addition of a
sound ,syllable or letter to the end of aword , either through natural development or as a grammatical function.
Etymologies
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From Late Latin paragoge, from Greek παραγωγή ‘derivation, addition’.
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Examples
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For paragoge it is not easy to give an equivalent; it is leading or bringing with a notion of change, sometimes a change into error, as when it means a quibble.
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It is not used intransitively; if there is a paragoge, there must be ho paragon, and similarly if there is evolution or development, there must be an evolver or developer.
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* paragoge apo tou me ontos eis to einai: [2366] 1
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