Talk:Polyptoton

figura etymologica[edit]

Sounds pretty close to figura etymologica... What's the difference? --Ioscius ^∞ 12:04, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the Juvenal isn't really an example, since in Latin, poyptoton refers to the same substantive in different cases. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.148.245 (talk) 10:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

subtle...[edit]

which naturally preferred the prevalent alliteration that is part and parcel of polyptoton

I see what you did there. sbb (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:42, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Latin superlative genitive[edit]

I don't have a reference handy, but Latin Christian poetry had to have gotten this at least in part from Biblical Hebrew, possibly via Biblical Greek. For instance, sanctum sanctorum can be found in the Latin Vulgate translation where the Hebrew has קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים‎, which the Septuagint translates as ἁγίῳ τῶν ἁγίων, all meaning "most holy". The juxtaposition of the word with another form of the same word is due to the way Hebrew does genitives (aside from prepositional phrases): the possessor, in the construct state, is immediately followed by the possessed. There are a number of such figures of speech in the Hebrew scriptures: king of kings, lord of lords, heaven of heavens ("highest heaven"), etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:22, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frankenstein[edit]

The extended paragraph on Frankenstein with a one-source citation seems more like some Frankenstein enthusiast's insertion of content (possibly original?) rather than something genuinely apropos. Can we condense this to one sentence, if we keep it at all? It doesn't seem to offer more than one sentence's worth of content to the subject of polyptoton.