synizesis

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

sinizesi

sinonimi

synezesis

Traduzioni

συνίζηση

synizèse

gözbebeği küçülmesi

Etimologia (Inglese)

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