SYLLEPSIS


Meaning of SYLLEPSIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ sə-ˈlep-səs ]

noun

( plural syl·lep·ses -ˌsēz)

Etymology: Latin, from Greek syllēpsis, from syllambanein

Date: circa 1550

1. : the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case

2. : the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense

• syl·lep·tic -ˈlep-tik adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.