different between consecutive vs synizesis

English

Etymology

From French consécutif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ns?kj?t?v/

Adjective

consecutive (not comparable)

1. following, in succession, without interruption
2. having some logical sequence

Antonyms

• nonconsecutive
• simultaneously

Derived terms

• consecutive interpretation / consecutive interpreting
• consecutively
• consecutiveness

Translations

Noun

consecutive (countable and uncountable, plural consecutives)

1. (music, countable) A sequence of notes or chords that results from repeated shifts in pitch of the same interval.
2. (linguistics, countable) A linguistic form that implies or describes an event that follows temporally from another.
3. (uncountable and countable) Consecutive interpretation.

Translations

Italian

Adjective

consecutive f pl

1. feminine plural of consecutivo

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (suníz?sis, “a sitting together”).

Noun

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

1. (poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.
2. (prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
3. (medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
4. (biology) Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

Translations

See also

• crasis

Further reading

• Synizesis (linguistic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Synizesis (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia