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epiphonema
noun 
  1. (rhetoric) An exclamation or reflection used to summarise or round off an argument or discourse.
    • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 50:
    • :in the midst of a dispute on the subject, in which, by the bye, he was frequently involved,
Etymology: From Latin, epiphonema, from Ancient Greek (polytonic, á), from (polytonic, á) "call to".

     
 
  

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