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synzeugma en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συν- (sun-) + ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoke, bond”).

Meanings

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) A type of zeugma in which a verb joins and governs two phrases by coming between them; a synonym of mesozeugma.
    • Ad Herennium 4.27.38: "Either with disease beauty fades or with time."

Forms

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synzeugmenon alternative lexicographic

Relateds

hypozeugma · epizeugma · protozeugma · mesozeugma · diazeugma · zeugma · prozeugma · hyperzeugma