synchysis

English

Alternative forms

• synchesis
• synchisis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin synchysis, from Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs/

Noun

synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)

1. (poetry) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
3. (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence.
4. A confused mixture.
5. (ophthalmology) Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.

Translations

confused arrangement of words in a sentence

• French: synchyse (fr) f
• German: Synchyse f
• Italian: sinchisi f
• Portuguese: sínquise (pt) f
• Spanish: sínquisis f

fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye

• German: Synchyse f

See also

• hyperbaton
• anastrophe

References

• Gideon O. Burton (26 February 2007), “synchysis”, in Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric‎^[1].

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsyŋ.kʰy.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiŋ.ki.s̬is]

Noun

synchysis f (genitive synchysis or synchyseōs or synchysios); third declension

1. synchysis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	synchysis	synchysēs synchyseis
genitive	synchysis synchyseōs synchysios	synchysium
dative	synchysī	synchysibus
accusative	synchysim synchysin synchysem1	synchysēs synchysīs
ablative	synchysī synchyse1	synchysibus
vocative	synchysis synchysi	synchysēs synchyseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• → English: synchysis
• → French: synchyse
• → Italian: sinchisi
• → Portuguese: sínquise
• → Spanish: sínquisis

Further reading

• “synchysis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.