synecdoche

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (declension-1) the putting of a whole for a part
2. (Late-Latin, declension-1) (rhetoric) synecdoche (certain type of metaphor)

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[syˈnɛɡ.dɔ.kʰeː]

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “receiving together”) from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).