syllepses
Meaning of syllepses
plural noun
a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g. neither they nor it is working ).
late Middle English: via late Latin from Greek sullēpsis ‘taking together’.
Information about syllepses
- It is a name.
- Languages in which syllepses is used:
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Hyphenation of syllepses
syllepses
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- syllepses is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with syllepses
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