homeoteleuton

• homoeoteleuton, homoioteleuton

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμοιοτέλευτον (homoiotéleuton, “like ending”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊmiˌəʊtəˈluːtən/, /ˌhəʊmi.ətəˈluːtən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhoʊmiˌoʊtəˈluːtən/, /ˌhoʊmi.ətəˈluːtən/

homeoteleuton (plural homeoteleuta or homeoteleutons)

1. The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme.
   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Homeoteleuton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 91:

     Homoioteleuton makes the measure chime
     With the same endings of the fetter'd rhyme.

2. The accidental omission when copying a text, of text between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words in between.