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Showing words for SYLLEPSIS using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Syllepsis

syllepsis

8 Letter Words for Syllepsis

slipless

7 Letter Words for Syllepsis

lipless, plisses

6 Letter Words for Syllepsis

illess, lisles, lisses, pisses, plisse, sepsis, slipes, slypes, speils, speiss, spells, spiels, spiles, spills, spilly, spissy, syssel

5 Letter Words for Syllepsis

isles, leiss, lesiy, liles, lipse, lisle, lisps, lyses, lysis, pells, piles, pills, pleis, plies, pliss, seils, sells, selly, siles, sills, silly, silyl, sipes, sises, sissy, sleys, slipe, slips, slype, speil, spell, spiel, spies, spile, spill, spise, spiss, sylis, sypes, yells, yelps, yills, yipes

4 Letter Words for Syllepsis

elli, ells, epil, espy, ills, illy, ipse, isle, isls, leis, leps, less, leys, lies, lile, lily, lipe, lips, lisp, liss, lyes, lyse, pell, pess, pies, pile, pill, pily, pise, piss, plie, psis, pyes, seil, seis, sell, sels, seps, sess, seys, sile, sill, sipe, sips, sise, siss, sley, slip, spie, syes, syli, syll, sype, yell, yelp, yeps, yill, yipe, yips

3 Letter Words for Syllepsis

eli, ell, els, epi, esp, ess, eyl, ile, ill, ipl, ips, ise, isl, lei, lep, les, ley, lie, lip, lis, lye, lys, pel, pes, pie, pil, pis, pli, ply, psi, pye, sei, sel, sep, sey, sie, sil, sip, sis, sle, sly, spl, sps, spy, sse, ssp, sye, syl, yep, yes, yip, yis

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