hendiadys

English[edit]

Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕν (hén), stem of εἷς (heîs, “one”) + διά (diá, “through”) + δύο (dúo, “two”), “one [idea] through two [words]”.

Examples
“safe and sound” “nice and warm” (for “nicely warm”) “sound and fury” (for “furious sound”) “come and get it” (for “come get it”)

hendiadys (plural hendiadyses)

(rhetoric) A figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.
Coordinate term: hendiatris
- 1984, Wilfred G. E. Watson, Classical Hebrew Poetry, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 327:
  Some examples of hendiadys comprise two words in the bound state; others, two words in appositional hendiadys. It would seem that certain cases of appositional hendiadys are closely related to wordpairs (see WORD-PAIRS, BREAK-UP), though which way the development proceeded is far from certain.

figure of speech

hendiadys m (plural hendiadys)