punning
PUNNING
annominatio (general term for play on words: one species [called by Cornificius traductio] was the using the same words or the same words with a different quantity in different meanings; e.g. avium dulcedo ad avium ducit; so amari jucundum est si curetur ne quid insit amari Quint. 9 3). To be guilty of or have the habit of punning logos dicere (after logos qui ludis dicti sunt etc. Cic. fragm. ap. Non. 63 18).
annominatio (general term for play on words: one species [called by Cornificius traductio] was the using the same words or the same words with a different quantity in different meanings; e.g. avium dulcedo ad avium ducit; so amari jucundum est si curetur ne quid insit amari Quint. 9 3). To be guilty of or have the habit of punning logos dicere (after logos qui ludis dicti sunt etc. Cic. fragm. ap. Non. 63 18).
punning, punster: v. PUN .