Etymology

synesis

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Today it means: A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word. Full definition →

Ancient Greek σύνεσις
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromσύνεσις“unification, meeting, intelligence”
  2. English todaysynesis

Ancient Greek σύνεσις (súnesis, “unification, meeting, intelligence”).

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