different between modifies vs syllepsis

English

Verb

modifies

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modify

French

Verb

modifies

1. second-person singular present indicative of modifier
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of modifier

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)

1. (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

2. (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

1. (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