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Epizeuxis
Ep`i*zeux"is (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. a fastening together, repetition, fr. to fasten to or upon; upon + to join, yoke.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -

Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

Src: 1913 Websters

On the web saw the sentence, "Today was the very, very, very first time I ever heard of the word epizeuxis."

Sounds suspiciously like the madeup word epizootics, used around here for a variety of miscellaneous ailments. "I got the epizootics." There's freedom in spelling because I'm not sure I ever saw it written, only spoken.

Sounds suspiciously like the madeup word epizootics, used around here for a variety of miscellaneous ailments. "I got the epizootics." There's freedom in spelling because I'm not sure I ever saw it written, only spoken.

It's actually a real word. Epidemic - spreading quickly through the demos (people). Epizootic - spreading quickly through the zoo-sphere (animals).

Never heard it applied to animules. We rednecks aint that much eddicated.

Yes indeed! When someone got sick and a diagnosis was not immediately made, the old folks were wont to declare the person to have epizoodia. I don't find this word in the dictionary but it was surely used by my elders. My grandmother was quick to make this diagnosis when I was lazy and uncooperative as a child. She "cured" me by hanging a bag of asafoetida on a string around my neck. That stuff will cure anything, or at least make you claim you are cured. You have never smelled stink if you haven't smelled this nostrum.

Isn't epizoodia & epizootia Spanish?

Most med terms have Latin derivations, if indeed these words are derived from anything.

I believe pretty much all words come from somewhere, excepting gibberish.

Our title word here, comes from:

LL, fr. Gk, lit., act of fastening together, fr. epizeugnynai to fasten together (fr. epi- + zeugnynai to join, yoke) + -sis

Looks sorta loose-jointed though.