tmesisn.

Brit.

/ˈtmiːsɪs/,

/təˈmiːsɪs/, U.S.

/təˈmisᵻs/

Forms: (Also 1500s timesis.)

Etymology: < Greek τμῆσις a cutting, from verbal ablaut series τεμ-, τομ-, τμ- to cut.

Grammar and Rhetoric.

The separation of the elements of a compound word by the interposition of another word or words. Often a reversion to the earlier uncompounded structure.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > splitting of word by intervening word

diacope1592

tmesis1592

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Tmesis or Diacope, a diuision of a word compound into two partes, as: What might be soeuer vnto a man pleasing,..for whatsoeuer might be &c.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tmesis,..a figure of Prosody, wherein a compounded word is, as it were, cut asunder, and divided into two parts by some other word which is interposed, as Septem Subjecta Trioni, for Subjecta Septemtrioni.

1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. 1 265 Though the constituent parts of compound terms may be disjoined by tmesis, the elements of truly simple words never are.

1889 Athenæum 23 Mar. 373/1 Forgive the quaint tmesis of his opening line:—How bright the chit and chat!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tmesis
释义	tmesisn. Brit. /ˈtmiːsɪs/, /təˈmiːsɪs/, U.S. /təˈmisᵻs/ Forms: (Also 1500s timesis.) Etymology: < Greek τμῆσις a cutting, from verbal ablaut series τεμ-, τομ-, τμ- to cut. Grammar and Rhetoric. The separation of the elements of a compound word by the interposition of another word or words. Often a reversion to the earlier uncompounded structure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > splitting of word by intervening word diacope1592 tmesis1592 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Tmesis or Diacope, a diuision of a word compound into two partes, as: What might be soeuer vnto a man pleasing,..for whatsoeuer might be &c. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Tmesis,..a figure of Prosody, wherein a compounded word is, as it were, cut asunder, and divided into two parts by some other word which is interposed, as Septem Subjecta Trioni, for Subjecta Septemtrioni. 1844 Proc. Philol. Soc. 1 265 Though the constituent parts of compound terms may be disjoined by tmesis, the elements of truly simple words never are. 1889 Athenæum 23 Mar. 373/1 Forgive the quaint tmesis of his opening line:—How bright the chit and chat! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592
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