synesis

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Grammatical agreement within a clause of one element with another according to the meaning of the latter rather than its morphological form.


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Origin:
early 18th century. From post-classical Latin synesis from ancient Greek σύνεσις (Attic ξύνεσις) understanding, intelligence, in medieval Greek also as a grammatical term from συνιέναι to understand (from συν- + ἱέναι to send) + -σις




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