Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

isocolon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: iso-colon
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἰσόκωλον (isókōlon), neuter of ἰσόκωλος (isókōlos), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and κῶλον (kôlon, “member, clause”). By surface analysis, iso- + colon.

Inflected Forms

isocolons (plural) isocola (plural)

Questions

What does isocolon mean?: A rhetorical scheme in which parallel elements possess the same number of words or syllables.
Where does isocolon come from?: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἰσόκωλον (isókōlon), neuter of ἰσόκωλος (isókōlos), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and κῶλον (kôlon, “member, clause”). By surface analysis, iso- + colon.

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