different between brachylogy vs apokoinou

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From brachy- +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (brakhulogía), from ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

Noun

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

See also

• ellipsis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek genitive form of ????????? (apókoinós), from ??? (apó) + ?????? (koinós, “in common”)

Noun

apokoinou

1. (rhetoric) A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentence. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (apó) + ?????? (koinós, “in common”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.po?.k?i?.nu/
• Hyphenation: apo?koi?nou

Noun

apokoinou f (plural apokoinous)

1. A rhetorical device similar to a zeugma or elliptical construction. An apokoinou is the blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentence. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

   It was he told me about it.

   There was a door led to the kitchen.