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synecdoche
English
Alternative forms
- syndoche
- synechdoche
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin synecdoch?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??n?k.d?.ki/, /s??n?k.do?.ki/
Noun
synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.
- Hyponyms: pars pro toto, totum pro parte
- Hypernym: metonymy
- 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:
- "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
- (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.
- Synonym: synecdochy
Usage notes
Technically, a synecdoche is a part of the referent while a metonym is connected or associated but not necessarily a part of it.
Derived terms
Related terms
- docetism
- meronymy
Translations
See also
- metaphor
- metonymy
Further reading
- synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sin?k?do?x?/
Noun
synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)
- (literature) synecdoche
See also
- metonymia
synecdoche From the web:
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merismus
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (merismós, “a dividing”), derived from the Ancient Greek verb ?????? (meríz?, “to divide into parts”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m????zm?s/
Noun
merismus
- (rhetoric) A metonymic term to describe a type of synecdoche in which two parts of a thing, perhaps contrasting or complementary parts, are made to stand for the whole.
Usage notes
The term was generally used around in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (It can be found used to describe both Shakespeare and Christian Reformation theologians by their contemporaries.) It then seems to have fallen into disuse, only being revived in the middle of the twentieth century.
References
- merismus, in Worldwide Words.com'
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