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agnominatio

agnominatio · f

the bringing together two words different in meaning

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

agnōmĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

agnōmĭnātĭo (adn-), ōnis, f.,

I the bringing together two words different in meaning, but similar in sound, paronomasia, a rhet. fig., = paronomasi/a: veniit a te antequam Romam venit. Hunc ăvium dulcedo ducit ad āvium. Si lenones tamquam leones vitāsset. Videte judices, utrum homini navo an vano credere malitis, etc., Auct. ad Her. 4, 21; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 66.

In the wild

adnominatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.66

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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