synchysis

English

Alternative forms

• synchesis
• synchisis

Etymology

Through Latin from the Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.kə.sɪs/

Noun

synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)

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

See also

• hyperbaton
• anastrophe

References

• Silva Rhetoricae