syllepsis
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See also: Syllepsis
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɛp.sɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
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syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
- Hypernym: brachylogy
- Coordinate term: zeugma
- (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- Antonym: prolepsis
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Translations[edit]
figure of speech
botany: growth of branches without dormancy
References[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sylˈleːp.sis/, [s̠ʏlˈlʲeːps̠ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /silˈlep.sis/, [silˈlɛpsis]
Noun[edit]
syllēpsis f (genitive syllēpsis or syllēpseōs or syllēpsios); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | syllēpsis | syllēpsēs syllēpseis |
Genitive | syllēpsis syllēpseōs syllēpsios |
syllēpsium |
Dative | syllēpsī | syllēpsibus |
Accusative | syllēpsim syllēpsin syllēpsem1 |
syllēpsēs syllēpsīs |
Ablative | syllēpsī syllēpse1 |
syllēpsibus |
Vocative | syllēpsis syllēpsi |
syllēpsēs syllēpseis |
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
References[edit]
- “syllepsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin syllēpsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
syllepsis m inan (indeclinable)
Further reading[edit]
- syllepsis in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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