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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συνεκδέχομαι (sunekdékhomai) + -ή (-ḗ) and συν- (sun-) + ἐκδοχή (ekdokhḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.neɡ.do.kʰɛ̌ː/ → /sy.neɡ.ðoˈçi/ → /si.neɡ.ðoˈçi/
Noun
σῠνεκδοχή • (sunekdokhḗ) f (genitive σῠνεκδοχῆς); first declension
- understanding one thing with another
- (rhetoric) synecdoche
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- συνεκδοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “συνεκδοχή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “συνεκδοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press