different between emesis vs tmesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”). Compare ?????? (émetos, “vomit”, noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?s?s/
• Hyphenation: em?e?sis

Noun

emesis (countable and uncountable, plural emeses)

1. (pathology) The act or process of vomiting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• missee

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (émesis), from ???? (emé?, “vomit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?mesis/, [e?me.sis]

Noun

emesis f (plural emesis)

1. (medicine) emesis, vomit

   Synonym: vómito

Further reading

“emesis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Coined 1586, from Late Latin tm?sis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t(?)?mi?s?s/, /?mi?s?s/
• ,
• Rhymes: -i?s?s

Noun

tmesis (countable and uncountable, plural tmeses)

1. (prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.

   Synonym: diacope

Derived terms

• axonotmesis
• neurotmesis

Related terms

• tmema
• tmetic

Translations

See also

• infix
• -bloody-
• -fucking-

Further reading

• tmesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• MSTies, i-stems, misset, smites, stimes, tsimes

Latin

Alternative forms

• thmesis (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tme?.sis/, [?t?me?s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tme.sis/, [?t?m??s?is]

Noun

tm?sis f (genitive tm?sis); third declension

1. (grammar) The separation of a word, tmesis.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

• English: tmesis
• French: tmèse

References

• tmesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tmesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

tmesis f (plural tmesis)

1. (prosody) tmesis