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Definitions for Syllepsis
[1] the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
[2] (in grammar or rhetoric) the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover two syntactical functions, as the verb form have in she and they have promised to come
[3] another word for zeugma
Words nearby Syllepsis
syllable-timed, syllabogram, syllabography, syllabub, syllabus, syllepsis, syllogism, syllogist, syllogistic, syllogize, sylph
Origin of Syllepsis
1570–80; < Medieval Latin syllēpsis < Greek sýllēpsis, equivalent to syl- syl- + lēb- (variant stem of lambánein to take) + -sis -sis
Other words from Syllepsis
syl·lep·tic [si-lep -tik] /sɪˈlɛp tɪk/ , adjective
syl·lep·ti·cal·ly , adverb
Word origin for Syllepsis
C16: from Late Latin, from Greek sullēpsis, from sul- syn- + lēpsis a taking, from lambanein to take