synecdoche

English

WOTD – 26 September 2006    

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Alternative forms

• syndoche, synechdoche

Etymology

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhe, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪˈnɛkdəki/ or /sɪ'nɛkdoʊki/, X-SAMPA: /sI"nEkd@ki/

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Noun

synecdoche (plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made, and similar.
   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired syndecdoche for war crimes in general.

2. (rhetoric) The use of synecdoche; synecdochy.

Synonyms

• (part for the whole): pars pro toto

Hypernyms

• metonymy

Derived terms

• synecdochy
• synecdochic
• synecdochical
• synecdochically

Related terms

• docetism
• meronymy

Translations

certain figure of speech

• Catalan: sinècdoque (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提喻 (cmn) (tíyù), 提喻法 (cmn) (tíyù fǎ)

• Czech: synekdocha (cs) f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: synecdoche (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: synekdokee (fi)
• French: synecdoque (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Synekdoche (de) f

• Greek: συνεκδοχή (el) (synekdochí) f 
• Italian: sineddoche (it) f
• Japanese: 提喩 (ja) (ていゆ, teiyu), 提喩法 (ja) (ていゆほう, teiyuhō)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: sinédoque (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: синекдоха (ru) (sinékdoxa) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: sinegdoha (sh)
• Spanish: sinécdoque (es) f
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• metaphor
• metonymy
• Synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /sinɛkˈdoːxə/

Etymology

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhe, “receiving together”).

Noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje)

1. (literature) synecdoche

See also

• metonymia