asyndeton

See also: Asyndeton

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪndətən/, /əˈsɪndətɒn/, /æ-/, /eɪ-/

Noun

Examples (rhetoric)
...that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth... –Abraham Lincoln

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.

Synonyms

• dissolutio, asyndesis, asyndetism

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Coordinate terms

• syndeton, polysyndeton

Related terms

• asyndetic
• asyndetically

Translations

rhetoric scheme

• Catalan: asíndeton m
• Czech: asyndeton m
• Finnish: asyndeton
• French: asyndète (fr) m
• German: Asyndeton n
• Greek: ασύνδετο (el) n (asýndeto)

  Ancient Greek: ἀσύνδετον n (asúndeton)

• Hungarian: aszindeton
• Italian: asindeto (it) m
• Latin: asyndeton n, dissolūtiō f
• Polish: asyndeton (pl) m
• Portuguese: assíndeto (pt) m
• Spanish: asíndeton (es) m
• Tagalog: lakdaw

See also

• articulus

Anagrams

• nonsteady

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton, “unconnected”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈasɪndɛton]

Noun

asyndeton n

1. asyndeton

Declension

Declension of asyndeton (hard neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	asyndeton	asyndeta
genitive	asyndeta	asyndet
dative	asyndetu	asyndetům
accusative	asyndeton	asyndeta
vocative	asyndeton	asyndeta
locative	asyndetu	asyndetech
instrumental	asyndetem	asyndety

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈsyn.dɛ.tɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈs̬in.de.ton]

Noun

asyndeton n (genitive asyndetī); second declension

1. (rhetoric) asyndeton

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	asyndeton	asyndeta
genitive	asyndetī	asyndetōrum
dative	asyndetō	asyndetīs
accusative	asyndeton	asyndeta
ablative	asyndetō	asyndetīs
vocative	asyndeton	asyndeta

Synonyms

• (Pure Latin) dissolūtiō

Descendants

• Catalan: asíndeton
• → English: asyndeton
• French: asyndète
• Galician: asíndeto
• Italian: asindeto
• Portuguese: assíndeto, assíndeton
• Spanish: asíndeton

Adjective

asyndeton

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

References

• “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.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀσύνδετον (asúndeton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɘnˈdɛ.tɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɔn
• Syllabification: a‧syn‧de‧ton

Noun

asyndeton m inan

1. (rhetoric, grammar) asyndeton

   Synonym: polisyndeton

Declension

Declension of asyndeton

	singular	plural
nominative	asyndeton	asyndetony
genitive	asyndetonu	asyndetonów
dative	asyndetonowi	asyndetonom
accusative	asyndeton	asyndetony
instrumental	asyndetonem	asyndetonami
locative	asyndetonie	asyndetonach
vocative	asyndetonie	asyndetony

Derived terms

adjective

• asyndetyczny

adverb

• asyndetycznie

Further reading

• “asyndeton”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)