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Definition of Synizesis
1. Noun. The contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis.
Generic synonyms: Biological Process, Organic Process
Group relationships: Prophase
Definition of Synizesis
1. n. An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
Definition of Synizesis
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Synizesis
1. [n -ZESES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Synizesis
Literary usage of Synizesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek and Roman Versification: With an Introduction on the Development of by Lucian Müller, Samuel Ball Platner (1892)
"synizesis in Greek. synizesis hardly occurs in Greek except when the first vowel
is e, since this vowel, being the weakest, most easily combines with the ..."
2. Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation (1550-1700) by Bastiaan Adriaan Pieter van Dam, Cornelis Stoffel (1902)
"By synizesis we understand a peculiar shortening of the pronunciation of certain
... The second mode of pronunciation is technically known as synizesis, ..."
3. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"synizesis 50. In poetry two vowels, or a vowel and a diphthong, belonging to
successive ... synizesis also sometimes occurs between two words when the ..."
4. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"synizesis in Late and Vulgar batin. For a list of spellings from late ...
Forms with synizesis occasionally appear in the Latin Poets (classical as well as ..."
5. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"... contract from the stem /$17»- (yielding и or synizesis 60. In poetry two
vowels, or a vowel and a diphthong, belonging to successive syllables may unite ..."
6. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"CRASIS, synizesis, ELISION. - HIATUS. [§ 206. them, where the Attic dialect does
not, ... The use of synizesis, § 12, is very frequent in the Homeric poems, ..."
7. A Collection of Examples Illustrating the Metrical Licenses of Vergil by Harold Whetstone Johnston (1897)
"425), -ei and -to being taken together by synizesis, and -eu in the nominative
and vocative being a diphthong. The following is a list of the nominatives ..."
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