Origin of pleonasm
Pleonasm stems from the Late Latin noun pleonasmus, from the Greek pleonasmós “superabundance, excess,” in rhetoric “pleonasm,” from the Greek adjective pleíōn meaning “more.” It entered English in the ea...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
pleonasm: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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