syllepsis

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English

Etymology

From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).

Pronunciation

Noun

Examples (rhetoric)
  • She lowered her standards by raising her glass, Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.
    – Flanders and Swann
  • Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
    – Alexander Pope
  • I checked my coat, my privilege, and my watch.
    – James Harbeck
  • The gun is loaded and so is the sheriff.
    – J.G. Thirlwell
  • She cribbed the baby and then the corn.
  • She came in high spirits and a Cadillac.

syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)

  1. (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
  2. (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

Translations

References

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).

Pronunciation

Noun

syllēpsis f (genitive syllēpsis or syllēpseōs or syllēpsios); third declension

  1. (grammar) syllepsis

Declension

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

singular plural
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.

Descendants

References

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin syllēpsis. Doublet of syllepsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɘlˈlɛp.sis/
  • Rhymes: -ɛpsis
  • Syllabification: syl‧lep‧sis

Noun

syllepsis f (indeclinable)

  1. (rhetoric) syllepsis (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)
    Synonym: syllepsa

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