asyndeton

See also: Asyndeton

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin asyndeton, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

Noun

asyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta)

1. (rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Related terms

• syndeton
• polysyndeton
• asyndetic
• syndetic

Translations

rhetoric scheme

• Catalan: asíndeton m
• Czech: asyndeton m
• Finnish: asyndeton
• French: asyndète (fr) m
• German: Asyndeton n
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀσύνδετον n (asúndeton)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: asindeto (it) m
• Latin: asyndeton n, dissolūtiō f
• Portuguese: assíndeto (pt) m
• Spanish: asíndeton (es) m
• Tagalog: lakdaw

See also

• articulus

Further reading

• asyndeton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nonsteady

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Czech

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈasɪndɛton]

Noun

1. asyndeton

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈsyn.de.ton/, [äˈs̠ʏn̪d̪ɛt̪ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈsin.de.ton/, [äˈs̬in̪d̪et̪on]

Noun

asyndeton n (genitive asyndetī); second declension

1. (rhetoric) asyndeton

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asyndeton	asyndeta
Genitive	asyndetī	asyndetōrum
Dative	asyndetō	asyndetīs
Accusative	asyndeton	asyndeta
Ablative	asyndetō	asyndetīs
Vocative	asyndeton	asyndeta

Synonyms

• (Pure Latin) dissolūtiō

Descendants

• English: asyndeton

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) asyndeton

1. inflection of asyndetos:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

References

• “asyndeton”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• asyndeton in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.