synecdoche

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.
2. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The use of this figure of speech.

Konzepte

Synekdoche

-n

Synonyme

connotation

synecdochy

Übersetzungen

synecdoque

synecdoche

συνεκδοχή

sineddoche

sinècdoque

sinécdoque

synecdoche

Sinedoque

Sinédoque

sinédoque

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Borrowed from Latin synecdochē, 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”).