ANACOLUTHON

noun (plural anacolutha; also -thons) Etymology: Late Latin, from Late Greek anakolouthon inconsistency in logic, from Greek, neuter of anakolouthos inconsistent, from an- + akolouthos following, from ha-, a- together + keleuthos path Date: circa 1706 syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence, anacoluthic adjective anacoluthically adverb