synecdoche
Significado (Inglés)
- (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.
- (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) The use of this figure of speech.
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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/
Etimología (Inglés)
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”).
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