tmesis

From Late Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). First attested in 1586.

• IPA^(key): /t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/, /ˈmiːsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

tmesis (countable and uncountable, plural tmeses)

1. (prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.

   Synonym: diacope

• axonotmesis
• neurotmesis

• tmema
• tmetic

• infix
• -bloody-
• -fucking-

• tmesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• MSTies, i-stems, misset, smites, tsimes

• thmesis (Medieval Latin)

From Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtmeː.sɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪mɛː.s̬is]

tmēsis f (genitive tmēsis); third declension

1. (grammar) The separation of a word, tmesis.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• English: tmesis
• French: tmèse

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

tmesis f (plural tmesis)

1. (prosody) tmesis