synonymia
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin synōnymiā, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía).
Noun
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He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot! |
synonymia (plural synonymiae)
- (rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
- 2007, Sylvia Adamson, "Synonymia, or in other words", in Anderson, et al., Renaissance figures of speech, page 29
- At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, […] .
- 2007, Sylvia Adamson, "Synonymia, or in other words", in Anderson, et al., Renaissance figures of speech, page 29
Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see English synonymy), ultimately from Latin synonymia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]synonymia
- synonymy (quality of being synonymous)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of synonymia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | synonymia | synonymiat | |
genitive | synonymian | synonymioiden synonymioitten | |
partitive | synonymiaa | synonymioita | |
illative | synonymiaan | synonymioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | synonymia | synonymiat | |
accusative | nom. | synonymia | synonymiat |
gen. | synonymian | ||
genitive | synonymian | synonymioiden synonymioitten synonymiain rare | |
partitive | synonymiaa | synonymioita | |
inessive | synonymiassa | synonymioissa | |
elative | synonymiasta | synonymioista | |
illative | synonymiaan | synonymioihin | |
adessive | synonymialla | synonymioilla | |
ablative | synonymialta | synonymioilta | |
allative | synonymialle | synonymioille | |
essive | synonymiana | synonymioina | |
translative | synonymiaksi | synonymioiksi | |
abessive | synonymiatta | synonymioitta | |
instructive | — | synonymioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “synonymia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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