syllepsis

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

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛp.sɪs/

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syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)

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.

   Hypernym: brachylogy

   Coordinate term: zeugma

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.

   Antonym: prolepsis

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sylˈleːp.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [silˈlɛp.sis]

syllēpsis f (genitive syllēpsis or syllēpseōs or syllēpsios); third declension

1. (grammar) syllepsis

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

• → English: syllepsis
• → German: Syllepse, Syllepsis
• → Polish: syllepsa, syllepsis
• → Portuguese: silepse (learned)

• “syllepsis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Learned borrowing from Latin syllēpsis. Doublet of syllepsa.

• IPA^(key): /sɘlˈlɛp.sis/
• Rhymes: -ɛpsis
• Syllabification: syl‧lep‧sis

syllepsis f (indeclinable)

1. (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

• syllepsis in Polish dictionaries at PWN