ANACOLUTHON


Meaning of ANACOLUTHON in English

/an'euh keuh looh"thon/ , n. , pl. anacolutha /-theuh/ . Rhet.

1. a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as It makes me so - I just get angry.

2. an instance of anacoluthia.

[ 1700-10; anakólouthon, neut. of anakólouthos not following, equiv. to an- AN- 1 + akólouthos marching together ( a- together + kolouth-, gradational var. of keleuth- road, march + -os adj. suffix ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .