ˌepəˈzüksə̇s noun
( -es )
Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek, literally, act of fastening together, from epizeugnynai to fasten together (from epi- + zeugnynai to join, yoke) + -sis
Greek and Latin prosody : the joining of two successive ionics a minore so that the syllables that come together exchange quantities (as when ˘˘--]˘˘-- becomes ˘˘-˘]-˘--)