Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of reduplicating or the state of being reduplicated.
- noun The product or result of reduplicating.
- noun A word formed by or containing a reduplicated element.
- noun The added element in a word form that is reduplicated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reduplicating, redoubling, or repeating, or the state of being reduplicated.
- noun In rhetoric, a figure in which a verse ends with the same word with which the following begins.
- noun In philol.:
- noun The repetition of a syllable (usually a root-syllable), or of the initial part, often with more or less modification, in various processes of word-formation and inflection.
- noun The new syllable formed by reduplication.
- noun In logic, an expression affixed to the subject of a proposition, showing the formal cause of its possession of the predicate: as, “man, as an animal, has a stomach,” where the expression “as an animal” is the reduplication.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a folding of a part; a folded part; a fold or duplication, as of a membrane, of the skin, etc. Also
reduplicature . - noun In pathology, the repetition of the sequence of symptoms in a case of intermittent malarial fever of double type.
- noun In mech., the principle, in a cord-and-pulley, that the greater the number of turns of the rope in the pulleys, the greater the load that can be lifted by a given pull on the hauling-rope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
- noun (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
- noun (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The act of, or an instance of,
reduplicating .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
- noun a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
- noun the syllable added in a reduplicated word form
- noun the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The former has final reduplication, which is absent in the latter; e.g., al-yebeb-in I show (or showed) to him, al-yeb-in I shall show him.
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Another phenomenon closely connected with this part of the subject is that of reduplication, which is produced by simply forming in the astral light a perfect mental image of the object to be copied, and then gathering about that mould the necessary physical matter.
The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena 1890
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Pluperf., and 3d Fut. not only do the same throughout the moods, but also prefix to the _syllabic_ augment the initial consonant of the root ( "reduplication") when this is a simple consonant or a mute followed by a liquid.
Greek in a Nutshell James Strong
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Shakespeare delights much in this kind of reduplication, sometimes so as to obscure his meaning.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Shelley’s essay multiplies the terms for this sort of, typically mimetic, representation: "reduplication",
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Doesn't the unusual pattern of reduplication in Greek μαρμαίρω marmáirō deserve explanation?
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However after the loss of laryngeals, *h₃e-h₃elh₁- /xʷe-xʷelh-/ would tend towards *ōl- and would no longer look like reduplication.
The hidden face 2010
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Taken individually, odd reduplication, the appearance of a prothetic a-, *or* a-vocalism of the root doesn't necessarily suggest non-IE origin, I realize.
The hidden face 2010
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But business groups say reduplication hurts productivity in many jobs, and can be dangerous in others.
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The reduplication of the first syllable is a common way of implying repetitive action, as "to rub or scratch" implies. back
jodi commented on the word reduplication
Reduplication (doubling of a word) can be used to "indicate genuinity, completeness, originality and being uncomplicated as opposed to being fake, incomplete, complicated or fussy" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication
April 20, 2011