asyndetonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin asyndeton, from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton), from ἀ- (a-, “a-, un-, non-”) and the neuter substantive of σῠ́νδετος (sŭ́ndetos, “bound, joined”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to a- +‎ syndeton.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /æˈsɪn.də.tən/

名詞

asyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta)

1. (grammar, rhetoric) Omission of conjunctions, especially for rhetorical effect.
   • 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, page 145:

     Asyndeton, or the Loose language... as thus. I saw it, I said it, I will sweare it.

   • 1740, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica, 2nd edition, page 145:

     Asyndeton the Cop'latives denies. Faith, Justice, Truth, Religion, Mercy dies.

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Asyndeton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 50:

     Asyndeton the copulative denies;
     And sometimes haste and rage sometimes implies.

同意語

• dissolutio, asyndesis, asyndetism

上位語

• brachylogy

等位語

• syndeton, polysyndeton

関連する語

参考

• articulus

アナグラム

• nonsteady

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈsyn.dɛ.tɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈs̬in̪.d̪e.t̪on]

名詞

asyndeton n (genitive asyndetī); second declension

1. (rhetoric) asyndeton

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

同意語

• (Pure Latin) dissolūtiō

派生した語

形容詞

asyndeton

1. inflection of asyndetos:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

参照

• “asyndeton”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asyndeton”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.