‖ homœoptoton
(həʊmiːɒpˈtəʊtɒn)
Also homoio-.
[Late L., a. Gr. ὁµοιόπτωτον (sc. ῥῆµα), f. ὅµοιο-ς like + πτωτός, vbl. adj. of πίπτειν to fall, decline (cf. πτῶσις fall, inflexion, case).]
A rhetorical figure consisting in the use of a series of words in the same case or with the same inflexion.
| 1678 in Phillips (ed. 4). 1721 in Bailey. 1883 H. P. Smith Gloss. Terms etc. 253. |