synecdoche

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

synecdoque

synecdoche

Synonymes

connotation

synecdochy

Traductions

Synekdoche

synecdoche

συνεκδοχή

sineddoche

sinècdoque

sinécdoque

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Sinedoque

Sinédoque

sinédoque

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).