G945Greekuse vain repetitions
use vain repetitions
to stutter, i.e., (by implication) to prate tediously
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Detailed Definition
- 1to stammer
- 2to repeat the same things over and over, to use many idle words, to babble, prate
Etymology & Derivation
from ?????? (a proverbial stammerer) and g3056
Scholarly Notes
some suppose the word derived from battus, a king of cyrene, who is said to have stuttered or from a poet named battus, an author of tedious and wordy poems.