"tmesis" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/, /ˈmiːsɪs/ Audio: en-us-tmesis.ogg , en-us-tmesis-2.ogg Forms: tmeses [plural]
Rhymes: -iːsɪs Etymology: From Late Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). First attested in 1586. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*temh₁-}}, {{bor|en|LL.|tmēsis}} Late Latin tmēsis, {{der|en|grc|τμῆσις||a cutting}} Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), {{etydate/the|1586}} 1586, {{etydate|1586}} First attested in 1586 Head templates: {{en-noun|~|tmeses}} tmesis (countable and uncountable, plural tmeses)
  1. (prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Prosody Synonyms: diacope Derived forms: axonotmesis, neurotmesis Related terms: tmema, tmetic, infix, -bloody-, -fucking- Translations (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word): тмезис (tmezis) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tmesi [feminine] (Catalan), 分字法 (fēnzìfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 插詞法 (Chinese Mandarin), 插词法 (chācífǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), tmesis [feminine] (Dutch), tmezo (Esperanto), tmeesi (Finnish), tmèse [feminine] (French), Tmesis [feminine] (German), τμήση (tmísi) [feminine] (Greek), timéis [feminine] (Irish), tmesi [feminine] (Italian), 切離 (kirihana) (alt: きりはな) (Japanese), tmēsis [feminine] (Latin), diacopē [feminine] (Latin), tmeza [feminine] (Polish), tmese [feminine] (Portuguese), тме́зис (tmézis) [masculine] (Russian), тме́сис (tmésis) [masculine] (Russian), тмеза [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tmeza [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tmesis [feminine] (Spanish), tmesis [common-gender] (Swedish), salingit (Tagalog)

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Alternative forms

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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmesi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きりはな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kirihana",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "word": "切離"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmēsis"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "diacopē"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmese"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tmézis",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тме́зис"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tmésis",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тме́сис"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тмеза"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmeza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tmesis"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tmesis"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "insertion of one or more words between the components of a word",
      "word": "salingit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tmesis"
}

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