How do you pronounce synecdoche?

The recorded pronunciation is /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/.

synecdoche

/sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables: synec-doche
IPA: /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/

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Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The use of this figure of speech.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Synecdoche the whole for part will take, Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake."
""Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general."
"Perhaps being in a touring band was, to Yorke, a synecdoche for the modern condition: disorientation, alienation, rootlessness, exhaustion, lack of control, occasional derangement, constant motion."

Etymology

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”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: synecdochē, συνεκδοχή

Usage

Inflected Forms

synecdoches (plural) syndoche (alternative) synechdoche (alternative)

Derived Forms

synecdochal synecdochic synecdochical synecdochically synecdochism synecdochist synecdochize synecdochy

Frequently Paired Words

docetism holonymy meronymy metalepsis metonymy metaphor figurativeness classifier

Synonyms

synecdochy