syllepsis

See also: Syllepsis

English

Etymology

From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis)

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɛp.sɪs/

Noun

syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)

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
She cribbed the baby and then the corn.
She came in high spirits and a Cadillac.

  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
  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.

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Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.le.psis/, [ˈsʏl.lɛ.psɪs]

Noun

syllepsis f (genitive syllepsis); third declension

  1. (grammar) syllepsis

Inflection

Third declension, alternative accusative singular in -im, alternative ablative singular in -ī and accusative plural in -īs.

Case Singular Plural
nominative syllepsis syllepsēs
genitive syllepsis syllepsium
dative syllepsī syllepsibus
accusative syllepsem
syllepsim		 syllepsēs
syllepsīs
ablative syllepse
syllepsī		 syllepsibus
vocative syllepsis syllepsēs

References

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