tmesis

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

Cognates include Bulgarian тмезис (tmezis), Dutch tmesis, Finnish tmeesi, French tmèse, German Tmesis, Greek τμήσις (tmísis), Italian tmesi, Polish tmeza, Portuguese tmese, Russian тме́зис (tmézis), Serbo-Croatian тмеза and tmeza, Spanish tmesis, and many others.

• IPA^(key): /t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/, /ˈmiːsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɪs

tmesis (plural tmeses)

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

   Synonyms: diacope, tumbarumba

• axonotmesis
• neurotmesis

• tmema
• tmetic

• infix
• -bloody-
• -fucking-

• tmesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• thmesis (Medieval Latin)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtmeː.sis/, [ˈtmeː.sɪs]

tmēsis f (genitive tmēsis); third declension

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

Third declension 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