synizesis
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “a sitting together”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ἱζάνω (hizánō, “to sit”).
Noun
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.
Derived terms
Translations
poetic figure of speech
linguistic feature
eye defect
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biological phenomenon
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See also
Further reading
Synizesis (linguistic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Synizesis (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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