Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, same as
tmesis . - noun [capitalized]
- noun A genus of percoid fishes having the operculum notched and tuberculate.
- noun [capitalized]
- noun A genus of lepidopterous insects.
- noun In surgery, a deep wound, particularly of the skull and its integuments; an incision, a fissure, or a longitudinal fracture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) Tmesis.
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- noun grammar
tmesis
Etymologies
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Latin, from Ancient Greek διακοπή (diakopē, "gash, cleft, rupture"), from διά (dia, "through, across") + κοπή (kopē, "cutting")
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