zeugma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoking; a bond, a band”), from ζεύγνυμι (zeúgnumi, “to yoke; to join”), from ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “a yoke”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzjuːɡ.mə/, /ˈzuːɡ.mə/

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zeugma (plural zeugmata or zeugmas)

1. (rhetoric) The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.
2. (rhetoric) Syllepsis.
   • July 1963, Fred Sommers, “Types and Ontology”, in The Philosophical Review‎, volume LXXII, Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Philosophy, page 343:

     The existence of zeugmas suggests the rule of transitivity. Zeugmas appear incorrect because they embody an allegedly univocal use of a term in a way which violated^[sic] the rule of transitivity.

   • 2008, Amanda Holton, The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics‎, page 104:

     Thus I would describe 'He took his leave and the wrong umbrella' as zeugma, but not 'He took his hat and umbrella'. Zeugma is an important element in Chaucer's poetic technique, not because he uses it, but because he so regularly turns it down.

Some writers distinguish between zeugma and syllepsis, while others do not.

• brachylogy

• syllepsis

• diazeugma
• hypozeugma
• mesozeugma
• prozeugma
• protozeugma

• zeugma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Silva Rhetoricae

zeugma m (uncountable)

1. zeugma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “bond; yoking”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈzɛwɡ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈzewɡ.ma]

zeugma m (plural zeugmes)

1. zeugma

zeugma n

1. zeugma

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• zeugma in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• zeugma in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• zeugma in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzœy̯ɣ.maː/

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• Hyphenation: zeug‧ma

zeugma n (plural zeugmata or zeugma's, diminutive zeugmaatje n)

1. zeugma

• IPA^(key): /zøɡ.ma/

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zeugma m (plural zeugmas)

1. zeugma

• “zeugma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Late Latin zeugma, from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “bond; yoking”).

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛwɡ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛwɡma
• Hyphenation: zèug‧ma

zeugma m (plural zeugmi)

1. (rhetoric) zeugma

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “bond; yoking”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzeu̯ɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛu̯ɡmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zeu̯ɡ.ma/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛu̯ɡmä]

zeugma n (genitive zeugmatis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) zeugma

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “zeugma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zeugma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “zeugma”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “zeugma”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “zeugma”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “zeugma”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Learned borrowing from Latin zeugma, from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛw.ɡma/
• Rhymes: -ɛwɡma
• Syllabification: zeug‧ma
• Homophone: Zeugma

zeugma f

1. (rhetoric) zeugma (using a word to apply to more than one noun)

From Latin zeugma, from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “bond, yoking”).

• Hyphenation: zeug‧ma

zeugma m (plural zeugmas)

1. (rhetoric) zeugma

• zeugmático

• IPA^(key): /zeǔɡma/
• Hyphenation: ze‧ug‧ma

zeùgma f (Cyrillic spelling зеу̀гма)

1. zeugma

• ceugma (rare)

From Latin zeugma, from Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “bond, yoking”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeuɡma/ [ˈθeu̯ɣ̞.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈseuɡma/ [ˈseu̯ɣ̞.ma]
• Rhymes: -euɡma
• Syllabification: zeug‧ma

zeugma m (plural zeugmas)

1. (rhetoric) zeugma

• “zeugma”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014