different between synteresis vs synaeresis

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin synt?r?sis (in Thomas Aquinas), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunt?r?sis, “careful watching”), from ????????? (sunt?reîn, “to keep guard”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?nt???i?s?s/

Noun

synteresis (uncountable)

1. (theology, historical) An aspect of one's conscience by which one can judge wrong from right and decide on what makes good conduct (as distinguished from syneidesis).
   • , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.166:

     Synteresis, or the purer part of the conscience, is an innate habit, and doth signify “a conservation of the knowledge of the law of God and Nature, to know good or evil”.

2. (medicine, obsolete) Preventive treatment; prophylaxis.

Related terms

• synteretic

English

Alternative forms

• synæresis (dated)
• synairesis (uncommon)
• syneresis (American)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis, “unification”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ??????? (haíresis, “taking”), from ????? (hairé?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n????s?s/

Noun

synaeresis (countable and uncountable, plural synaereses)

1. (linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
2. (chemistry) the separating out of the liquid from a gel.

Hypernyms

• (linguistics, prosody): metaplasm

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoric.byu.edu)

Latin

Alternative forms

• synæresis, syn?resis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sy?nae?.re.sis/, [s???näe???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si?ne.re.sis/, [si?n????s?is]

Noun

synaeresis f (genitive synaeresis or synaerese?s or synaeresios); third declension

1. synaeresis (contraction of two syllables into one)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:synaeresis.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Antonyms

• (synaeresis): diaeresis

References

• “synaeresis” on page 1,896/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)