syllepsis

== English == === Etymology === From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō). === Pronunciation === (UK, General American) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɛp.sɪs/ === Noun === syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses) (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 (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 ==== Related terms ==== sylleptic ==== Translations ==== === References === Gideon O. Burton (26 February 2007), “syllepsis”, in Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric‎[1]. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sylˈleːp.sɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [silˈlɛp.sis] === Noun === syllēpsis f (genitive syllēpsis or syllēpseōs or syllēpsios); third declension (grammar) syllepsis ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem). 1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin. ==== Descendants ==== → English: syllepsis → German: Syllepse, Syllepsis → Polish: syllepsa, syllepsis → Portuguese: silepse (learned) === References === “syllepsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press == Polish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin syllēpsis. Doublet of syllepsa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɘlˈlɛp.sis/ Rhymes: -ɛpsis Syllabification: syl‧lep‧sis === Noun === syllepsis f (indeclinable) (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 === Further reading === “syllepsis”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)