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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ζεύγνῡμι (zeúgnūmi, “to join”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdêu̯ŋ.ma/ → /ˈzeβɣ.ma/ → /ˈzevɣ.ma/
Noun
ζεῦγμα • (zeûgma) n (genitive ζεύγματος); third declension
- that which is used for joining, band, bond
- bridge of boats
- canal lock
- (rhetoric) zeugma
Inflection
Derived terms
References
- “ζεῦγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζεῦγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ζεῦγμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bar idem, page 62.
- boom idem, page 89.