About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- syllepsis
POS
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

syllepsis

 : 
Noun
 : 
syl=lep=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun syllepsis has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

syllepsisn. [L., fr. Gr. sy`llhpsis a taking together, from . See syllable, n.].
  •  A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

syllepsis, n. (pl. syllepses) a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g. caught the train and a bad cold) or to two others of which it grammatically suits one only (e.g. neither they nor it is working) (cf. ZEUGMA).

Derivative
sylleptic adj. sylleptically adv.
Etymology
LL f. Gk sullepsis taking together f. sullambano: see SYLLABLE
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion