different between metaplasm vs synaeresis

English

Etymology

From Latin metaplasmus from Ancient Greek ??????????? (metaplasmós)

Noun

metaplasm (plural metaplasms)

1. (linguistics) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds
2. (biology) A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell

Hyponyms

• (linguistics):
  • prothesis, epenthesis, paragoge, diaeresis, diastole
  • aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, ellipsis, ecthlipsis, synaloepha, synizesis, synaeresis, systole
  • metathesis
  • antisthecon

Translations

See also

• (linguistics): clipping

Further reading

• metaplasm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• synæresis (dated)
• synairesis (uncommon)
• syneresis (American)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis, “unification”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ??????? (haíresis, “taking”), from ????? (hairé?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n????s?s/

Noun

synaeresis (countable and uncountable, plural synaereses)

1. (linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
2. (chemistry) the separating out of the liquid from a gel.

Hypernyms

• (linguistics, prosody): metaplasm

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoric.byu.edu)

Latin

Alternative forms

• synæresis, syn?resis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sy?nae?.re.sis/, [s???näe???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si?ne.re.sis/, [si?n????s?is]

Noun

synaeresis f (genitive synaeresis or synaerese?s or synaeresios); third declension

1. synaeresis (contraction of two syllables into one)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:synaeresis.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Antonyms

• (synaeresis): diaeresis

References

• “synaeresis” on page 1,896/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)