different between prosiopetic vs prosiopesis

English

Etymology

From pro- (“before”) + Ancient Greek ?????????? (si?p?tikós, “taciturn”); compare prosiopesis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?s'??p?t??k, pr?s'??p?t??k, IPA^(key): /?p??s????p?t?k/, /?p??s???p?t?k/
• (General American) enPR: pr?s'i?p?t??k, IPA^(key): /?p??sio??p?t?k/
• Hyphenation: pros?i?o?pet?ic
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Adjective

prosiopetic (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of the nature of prosiopesis; compare aposiopetic.

English

Etymology

Coined in 1917 by the Danish linguist Jens Otto Harry Jespersen: pro- (“before”) (from the Ancient Greek preposition ??? (pró)) + ???????? (si?p?sis, “taciturnity”) (from ?????? (si?pá?, “to be silent”)) + -??? (-sis), (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?s'??p??s?s, pr?'s??p??s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??s????pi?s?s/ /?p??s???pi?s?s/
• (General American) enPR: pr?s'i?pi?s?s, IPA^(key): /?p??sio??pis?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s?s
• Hyphenation: pros?i?o?pe?sis

Noun

prosiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural prosiopeses)

1. (grammar) Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.
   • 2003, David Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, page 159 (5th Ed.; Wiley–Blackwell; ?ISBN, 9780631226642)

     Traditional rhetoric was much concerned with the phenomenon of elision, because of the implications for constructing well-formed metrical lines, which would scan well. In rhetorical terminology, an elision in word-initial position was known as aphaeresis or prosiopesis, in word-medial position as syncope, and in word-final position as apocope. A similar classification was made for the opposite of elision, intrusion.

Coordinate terms

• (forms of word-elision): (from word-final position) apocope, aposiopesis; (from word-medial position) syncope, *synsiopesis

Related terms

• prosiopetic (rare)

References