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Epenthesis vs Epentheses - What's the difference?

epenthesis | epentheses |

As nouns the difference between epenthesis and epentheses

is that epenthesis is the insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context while epentheses is plural of epenthesis.

epenthesis

English

(wikipedia epenthesis)

Noun

(epentheses)
  • (phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.

    • Derived terms

    * epenthetic

    Hypernyms

    * metaplasm

    Hyponyms

    * excrescence * anaptyxis

    External links

    * Definition at silva rhetoricae, The Forest of Rhetoric ----

    epentheses

    English

    Noun

    (head)
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