syllepsis

See also: Syllepsis

English

From Latin syllepsis, from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis).

Examples (rhetoric)
She lowered her standards by raising her glass, Her courage, her eyes and his hopes. – Flanders and Swann Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea. – Alexander Pope She cribbed the baby and then the corn. She came in high spirits and a Cadillac.

syllepsis (countable and uncountable, plural syllepses)

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity.
Coordinate term: zeugma

Hypernym: brachylogy
(botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
Antonym: prolepsis

figure of speech

botany: growth of branches without dormancy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύλληψις (súllēpsis).

syllēpsis f (genitive syllēpsis or syllēpseōs or syllēpsios); third declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	syllēpsis	syllēpsēs syllēpseis
Genitive	syllēpsis syllēpseōs syllēpsios	syllēpsium
Dative	syllēpsī	syllēpsibus
Accusative	syllēpsim syllēpsin syllēpsem¹	syllēpsēs syllēpsīs
Ablative	syllēpsī syllēpse¹	syllēpsibus
Vocative	syllēpsis syllēpsi	syllēpsēs syllēpseis

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

syllepsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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