epanodos

1. 1.

   recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order)

   Broaderrecapitulation

   rhetoric

2. 2.

   repetition of a group of words in reverse order

   Broaderrepetition

   rhetoric

Other forms of epanodos

plural

epanodoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epanodos

What does epanodos mean?

epanodos means "recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in epanodos?

epanodos has 4 syllables: e-pa-no-dos. The stress falls on "pa".

Is epanodos a common word?

epanodos is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.