Definitions For Tmesis

Noun

{{examples, examples= How bright the chit and chat, inserting and into chit-chat abso-fucking-lutely, abso-fucking-lutely, insertion of swear word fucking into absolutely a whole nother, a whole nother, a proscribed but common insertion.}} {{en-noun, tmeses}} (prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word. : Synonym: diacope

Derived terms

axonotmesis neurotmesis

Related terms

tmema tmetic

Translations

Bulgarian: тмезис, m Catalan: tmesi, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 分字法 (fēnzìfǎ, sc=Hani), 插詞法, sc=Hani}}, {{t, cmn, 插词法 (chācífǎ, sc=Hani) Dutch: tmesis, f Finnish: tmeesi French: tmèse, f German: Tmesis, f Greek: τμήσις, f Italian: tmesi, f Japanese: 切離 (きりはな, kirihana) Latin: tmēsis, f, diacopē, f Polish: tmeza, f Portuguese: tmese, f Russian: тме́зис, m, тме́сис, m Serbo-Croatian: : Cyrillic: тмеза, f, sc=Cyrl : Roman: tmeza, f Spanish: tmesis, f Tagalog: salingit

Etymology

Coined 1586, from "a cutting", from τέμνω, , I cut. Cognates include {{cog, bg, тмезис}}, {{cog, nl, tmesis}}, {{cog, fi, tmeesi}}, {{cog, fr, tmèse}}, {{cog, de, Tmesis}}, {{cog, el, τμήσις}}, {{cog, it, tmesi}}, {{cog, pl, tmeza}}, {{cog, pt, tmese}}, {{cog, ru, тме́зис}}, {{cog, sh, тмеза, sc=Cyrl}} and tmeza, {{cog, es, tmesis}}, and many others.