synizesis

Significado (Inglés)

1. 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.
2. The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
3. An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
4. Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

Sinónimos

synezesis

Traducciones

συνίζηση

synizèse

sinizesi

gözbebeği küçülmesi

Etimología (Inglés)

From Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “a sitting together”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ἱζάνω (hizánō, “to sit”).