pleonasm

• n. 冗笔；赘语；冗言法

来自希腊语pleonazein,过多，超过，来自pleon,更多的，来自PIE*ple,装满，填满，词源同 fill,full.-asm,名词后缀。引申词义冗言，赘述。

pleonasm (n.)

"redundancy in words," 1580s, from Late Latin pleonasmus, from Greek pleonasmos, from pleonazein "to be more than enough, to be superfluous," in grammatical use, "to add superfluously," from comb. form of pleon "more" (see pleio-).