Terminology Tuesday: Homoioteleuton
homoioteleuton (Gk. ὅμοιος, ‘like’, and τελευτή, ‘ending’). In MSS, the repetition of the same sequence of letters or words in two neighboring places, considered as a source of error in copying. Where the repeated sequence occurs at the beginning of a word or phrase, the alternative expression ‘homoioarcton’ is occasionally used.
Cross, F. L., & Livingstone, E. A. (Eds.). (2005). In The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed. rev., p. 790). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.