different between poetic vs synizesis

English

Alternative forms

• poetick (obsolete)
• poetical

Etymology

From Middle French poetique, from Latin poeticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (poi?tikós) from ????? (poié?, “make”). Doublet of poietic.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /po???t?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

poetic (comparative more poetic, superlative most poetic)

1. Relating to poetry.
2. Characteristic of poets; romantic, imaginative, etc.
3. Connecting to the soul of the beholder. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• prosaic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Friulian

Adjective

poetic

1. poetic

Interlingua

Adjective

poetic (comparative plus poetic, superlative le plus poetic)

1. poetic

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