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noun, feminine

sinécdoque

/siˈneɡdoke/

noun, feminine/siˈneɡdoke/plural: sinécdoques

synecdoche, synecdochy

Borrowed from Late Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek συνεκδοχή (sunekdokhḗ, “jointly receiving”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ἐκ (ek, “out of”) + δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to accept”), this last element related to δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, suppose, seem”).