polyptoton

Etymology

(Traditional) Gk. poly, "many" + ptosis, "[grammatical] case"

Synonyms, partial synonyms, and alternate spellings

adnominatio, many inflections, paragmenon, polyptolon, the tranlacer, traductio, transplacement

Definition

The occurrence of the same lexical stem with different derivational affixes, a change of lexical class, or other lexicomorphological alteration(s).

[T]oday in Germany I am called a German man of science and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire, the description will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English. (Einstein, qtd in Moyer 1979)

Moyer, Donald Franklin. 1979. “Revolution in Science: The 1919 Eclipse Test of General Relativity.” In On the Path of Albert Einstein, edited by Berham Kursunoglu, Arnold Perlmutter, and Linda F. Scott, 55–102. University of Miami: Orbis Scientiae.

polyptoton
antimetabole
epanaphora
ploce
    ploce 1
    ploce 2
    ploce 3