different between brachylogy vs syllepsis
brachylogy
English
Alternative forms
- brachyology, brachylogia
Etymology
From brachy- +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (brakhulogía), from ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.
Noun
brachylogy (uncountable)
- concise speech; laconism
- (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
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syllepsis
English
Etymology
From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súll?psis).
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /s??l?p.s?s/
Noun
syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
- Coordinate term: zeugma
- Hypernym: brachylogy
- (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
- Antonym: prolepsis
Related terms
- sylleptic
Translations
References
- Silva Rhetoricae
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (súll?psis).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /syl?le?p.sis/, [s??l??l?e?ps??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sil?lep.sis/, [sil?l?psis]
Noun
syll?psis f (genitive syll?psis or syll?pse?s or syll?psios); third declension
- (grammar) syllepsis
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
References
- syllepsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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