tmesis
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/
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/t(ə)ˈmiːsɪs/ · /ˈmiːsɪs/
Definition of tmesis
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.
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Etymology
From Late Latin tmēsis, from Ancient Greek τμῆσις (tmêsis, “a cutting”), from τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”). First attested in 1586.
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