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Where does “pleonast” come from?

pleonast (English) comes from French pléonaste — pleonaste.

pleonast (English): One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in...

Definitions

  1. One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in...

Ancestry of “pleonast”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpléonastepleonaste
Every word from French pléonaste →