Dictionary

syllepsis en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈlɛp.sɪs/ (General-American, UK)
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Antonyms

prolepsis

Coordinates

zeugma

Hypernyms

brachylogy

Relateds

sylleptic

Translations (13)

de Syllepsis (figure of speech) · pl syllepsis (figure of speech) · fi syllepsi (figure of speech) · pl syllepsa (figure of speech) · de Syllepse (figure of speech) · hu szillepszis (figure of speech) · pt silepse (figure of speech) · it sillessi (figure of speech) · it sillepsi (figure of speech) · es silepsis (figure of speech) · ro silepsă (figure of speech) · fr syllepse (figure of speech) · ru си́ллепс (figure of speech)