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Definition of Synizeses
1. synizesis [n] - See also: synizesis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synizeses
Literary usage of Synizeses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... has become a universal custom in the speech of educated persons. Synizeses
certainly remain in verse, as: carrying, burying, glorious, meteor, ..."
2. Principles of Greek Etymology by Georg Curtius (1886)
"This is evident from the large number of synizeses between e and following vowels,
eg in the monosyllabic ..."
3. Principles of Greek Etymology by Georg Curtius, Augustus Samuel Wilkins, Edwin Bourdieu England (1876)
"This is evident from the large number of synizeses between e and following vowels,
eg in the monosyllabic ..."
4. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient Greece by William Mure (1850)
"... it may be remarked, is but one among a class of Synizeses authorised by Homer,
though not elsewhere exemplified in this particular word. Conf. II. i. ..."
5. Copious Greek Grammar by August Heinrich Matthiae, Edward Valentine Blomfield, John Kenrick (1837)
"synizesis is not to be assumed even where the short initial vowel is elided after
the long final. Similar synizeses are found in the middle of words, ..."
6. Copious Greek Grammar by August Heinrich Matthiae, Edward Valentine Blomfield, John Kenrick (1832)
"synizesis is not to be assumed even where the short initial vowel is elided after
the long final. Similar synizeses are found in the middle of words, ..."
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