synecdoche

• syndoche, synechdoche

Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/, /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/

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synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.

   Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech

   Hyponyms: pars pro toto (Latin), totum pro parte (Latin)

   Coordinate terms: metonymy, metaphor, figurativeness

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Synecdoche.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     Synecdoche the whole for part will take,
     Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.

   • 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.

   • 2017 May 17, Dorian Lynskey, “The 20-year-old black mirror that reflects the world today”, in BBC.com Culture‎^[1]:

     Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion.

2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

   Synonym: synecdochy

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• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”).

• IPA^(key): /sinɛkˈdoːxə/

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synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

1. (literature) synecdoche

• metonymia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [syˈnɛɡ.dɔ.kʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈnɛk.d̪o.ke]

synecdochē f (genitive synecdochēs); first declension

1. (original sense) the putting of a whole for a part
2. (Late Latin) (rhetoric) synecdoche (certain type of metaphor)

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• “synecdoche”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synecdoche in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia