different between synizesis vs synizeses

English

From Ancient Greek ????????? (suníz?sis, “a sitting together”).

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

(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.
(prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
(medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
(biology) Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

synizeses

Send