ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SYNIZESIS
Via Late Latin from Greek sunizēsis a collapse, from sunizanein to sink down, from syn- + hizein to sit.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNIZESIS»
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Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the ...
In other words, synizesis of forms of Geo; as to, iv, and -5-v at 5, 6, and 67 is a
license that Euripides allowed himself in order to facilitate composition. Less
frequently, he allowed himself to use one of the various forms of synizesis that
allowed ...
2
Greek and Roman Versification
Synizesis hardly occurs in Greek except when the first vowel is e, since this vowel
, being the weakest, most easily combines with the following. Synizesis is most
acceptable in the arsis, e.g. :— xpno'e'rp iivEr Irwin-rpm. xpwe'lrv o'm'jn'rpov ...
3
A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
Synizesis occurs when two consecutive vowels that do not naturally form a Latin
diphthong are joined into a single syllable. In some cases, synizesis is the result
of a tendency in speech for two similar vowels to be combined into a single ...
4
the persae of aeschylus
Of course, there is one formidable objection to our accepting Si' 'ldovas, and that
is that in order to make the metre of 1008 correspond with that of 1002 we should
have to assume synizesis of 'la. It must be admitted that the evidence for this ...
5
The Persae of Aeschylus
Of course, there is one formidable objection to our accepting 81' 'laovas, and that
is that in order to make the metre of 1008 correspond with that of 1002 we should
have to assume synizesis of 'la. It must be admitted that the evidence for this ...
Aeschylus, H. D. Broadhead, 1960
6
An essay upon the versification of Homer, and his digamma; ...
yet the principle on which they are so, I think, will be found fundamentally distinct
from Synizesis. For this holds as a universal principle, that, in Synizesis one of
the two syllables is lost altogether, and does not exercise any influence on the ...
7
Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
He does not believe that synizesis is a normal stage in the development of the
oocytes of Rana, although he figures contraction stages of the nuclei in cells
which he considers as oogonia that are not able to develop into oocytes.
8
The Poems and Fragments
3. 12 fipiOovr. (So Pindar, P. IV. 240, dyaTrd^ovT.) Synizesis is frequent. 1. -ea or
-ea : VIII. 2 Ne/ie'a. In Synizesis. XV. 26, rakairevdea, synizesis is not certain. 2. -
eo : V. 50 6e6<; (last word of the verse) : id. 95 detov (first word) : and so X. 60 ...
Bacchylides, Bacchylides, Richard Claverhouse Jebb
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Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic ...
I claim not that synizesis indicates clisis,49 but the converse—that clisis indicates
synizesis. The fact that synizesis in possessives is vastly commoner than
disyllabic scansion, and can occur in both emphatic or contrastive possessives
as well ...
10
The Lost Center and Other Essays in Greek Poetry
If Palamas had not confused Solomos' discovery about synizesis with its first
rather intransigent application in Draft C, if he had not made the mistake of
thinking that in Draft C Solomos condemned synizesis “completely,” he would
have seen ...
Zissimos Lorenzatos, 2014
