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• syndoche, synechdoche

語源

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”).

発音

• IPA: /sɪˈnɛk.də.ki/, /sɪˈnɛk.doʊ.ki/

名詞

synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) 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.

   Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech

   Hyponyms: pars pro toto (Latin), totum pro parte (Latin)

   Coordinate terms: metonymy, metaphor, figurativeness, classifier

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[The Seven Tropes.] Synecdoche.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     Synecdoche the whole for part will take,
     Or part for whole, just for the metre's sake.

   • 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.

   • 2017 May 17, Dorian Lynskey, “The 20-year-old black mirror that reflects the world today”, in BBC.com Culture‎:

     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.

2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

   Synonym: synecdochy

派生語

関連する語

• docetism

参考

Further reading

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [syˈnɛɡ.dɔ.kʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [siˈnɛk.do.ke]

名詞

synecdochē f (genitive synecdochēs); first declension

1. (original sense) the putting of a whole for a part
2. (Late Latin) (rhetoric) synecdoche (certain type of metaphor)

語形変化

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

派生した語

参照

• “synecdoche”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “synecdoche”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Further reading

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia