siniceza

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Synizese, from Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “subsidence, collapse”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sinǐt͡seza/
  • Hyphenation: si‧ni‧ce‧za

Noun

sinìceza f (Cyrillic spelling синѝцеза)

  1. (prosody, phonetics, poetry) synizesis (the fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter)

References

  • “siniceza”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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