zeugma

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeugma, bond; yoking).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /zuɡmə/, /zjuɡmə/
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[edit] Noun

zeugma (plural zeugmata or zeugmas)

Examples

We ate coffee and cake, for
We drank coffee and ate cake

  1. (rhetoric) The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.
  2. (rhetoric) Syllepsis.
    • 1963 July, Fred Sommers, Types and Ontology, in The Philosophical Review, Volume LXXII, Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Philosophy, page 343,
      The existence of zeugmas suggests the rule of transitivity. Zeugmas appear incorrect because they embody an allegedly univocal use of a term in a way which violated[sic] the rule of transitivity.
    • 2008, Amanda Holton, The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics, page 104,
      Thus I would describe 'He took his leave and the wrong umbrella' as zeugma, but not 'He took his hat and umbrella'.
      Zeugma is an important element in Chaucer's poetic technique, not because he uses it, but because he so regularly turns it down.

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  • Some writers distinguish between zeugma and syllepsis, while others do not.

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[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeugma, bond; yoking).

[edit] Noun

zeugma m. (plural zeugmes)

  1. zeugma

[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeugma, bond; yoking).

[edit] Noun

zeugma (genitive zeugmatis); n, third declension

  1. zeugma

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative zeugma zeugmata
genitive zeugmatis zeugmatum
dative zeugmatī zeugmatibus
accusative zeugma zeugmata
ablative zeugmate zeugmatibus
vocative zeugma zeugmata

[edit] References

  • zeugma in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /zeǔɡma/
  • Hyphenation: ze‧ug‧ma

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zeùgma f. (Cyrillic spelling зеу̀гма)

  1. zeugma

[edit] Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin zeugma, from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeugma, bond, yoking).

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

zeugma m. (plural zeugmas)

  1. (rhetoric) zeugma

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