Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
epithesis
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
epithesis
noun
The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning, as in "numb" for "num" or "whilst" for "whiles"
Words Related to
epithesis
!
syllabism
,
paragoge
,
language unit
,
aphthong
,
auslaut
,
epanadiplosis
,
anlaut
,
verbarium
,
phonotypy
,
overword
,
paronym
,
set phrase
,
rhopalic
,
verbalist
,
antiphrasis
,
assonate
,
metaplasm
,
calligram
,
word
,
content word
,
pauciloquy
,
antepenultima
,
glossic
,
eye rhyme
,
extradictionary
,
pluriliteral
,
apocopation
,
echoism
,
verb phrase
,
give voice
,
ecthlipsis
,
phrase
,
function word
,
noun phrase
,
apocope
,
figure of speech
,
heterophemy
,
common noun
,
misword
,
acrophony
,
hendecasyllable
,
acute accent
,
comitative
,
internal rhyme
,
biverbal
,
anthimeria
,
antimetathesis
,
rhetorical device
,
trisyllable
,
subtonic
,
metaplast
,
minimal pair
,
sound out
,
concrete noun
,
metagraphy
,
verbality
,
verbal noun
,
literation
,
phonetization
,
nonce word
,
disyllable
,
hispanism
,
grave accent
,
iotacism
,
pitch accent
,
syllabogram
,
conversationism
,
logology
,
ecphonesis
,
relative clause
,
word form
,
alpha privative
,
morology
,
orthoepist
,
dipody
,
heterography
,
hypercatalexis
,
letter case
,
ideophone
,
subvocalize
,
toneme
,
multiloquy
,
sound law
,
tralatition
,
indefinite pronoun
,
cacoepy
,
demonstrative pronoun
,
aphrasia
,
synaeresis
,
main clause
,
tralation
,
septisyllable
,
proper name
,
dodecasyllable
,
brachyology
,
parelcon
,
dysphemia
,
wellerism
,
italicism
,
lambdacism
,
epithesis
Examples by Brain Bank Users