POLYPTOTON  一詞多出法

REPETITIO of the same root in different functions and in some languages with different endings in others.

　Use of one word in many different functions in one context.

Hypernym
  • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Miriam 165

REF: Lausberg 663

Greek/Latin: Rutilius 1.5, Quintilian 9.3.68 eiusdem verbi contraria significatio. Common trope, particularly among the Sophists and writers of comedy.

Ancient Chinese: MENG has examples of this ( 利 ). The phenomenon is well worth investigating in pre-Buddhist texts.

LY: no clear examples found so far. But these are subtle rhetorical devices that are easily overlooked.

Rhetorical device locations: 19
  • 百喻經 “佛泥洹未？”

    泥洹 in lines 5 and 6 is used in different functions.

  • 百喻經 欲集牛乳，

    會 used first verbally, and then, typically, as the resulting nab of the action first mentioned. The order is not arbitrary.

  • 白虎通 爵稱也。

    稱

  • 詩。大序 所以風天下

    風

  • 法言 問鑄金，得鑄人。
  • 法言 人之模范也。
  • 法言 舍舟航而濟乎瀆者，末矣!

    濟 "cross over", "deal successfully with"

  • 韓非子 以一口與一國爭，

    一 "one", "the whole"

  • 韓非子 以古之賞賞今之人也。

    賞

  • 韓非子 夫殺一臣而存一國，

    一 "one" versus "the whole of" in 一臣 ... 一國

  • 韓非子 “公不忍之， 彼將忍公

    忍

  • 論語 斯焉取斯？」

    斯 twice in two different meanings.

  • 墨子 以實官府，

    實

  • 六祖壇經 各於自身自性自度。

    自

  • 左傳 冬日之日也； 趙盾 夏日之日也
  • 左傳 不亦誣乎！ 以誣道蔽諸侯

    誣

  • 論語 斯焉取斯？ 」

    斯 used in different meanings in close proximity

  • 法言 不詐詐也。
  • 郭店楚簡・語叢一 而後教生。 有生有知

    生 "arise" versus 生 "be alive"