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TMESIS

Definition: TMESIS

TMESIS

Noun

1. The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TMESIS" was first used: 1577. (references)


Synonyms within Context: TMESIS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inversion

Transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Tmesis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tmesis (Greek, "a cutting") is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is inserted into another word, often for humorous effect. The insertion may occur between the parts of a compound word, or between other syllable boundaries (dystmesis).

Examples:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tmesis."

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Crosswords: TMESIS

English words defined with "TMESIS": Diacope. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TMESIS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tmesis

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: TMESIS

Language Translations for "TMESIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tmezis. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összetett szó részeinek elválasztása. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esistmay

   

Portuguese

  

tmese. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тмезис. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

umetanje reči između delova složenice. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TMESIS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

tmesis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TMESIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: misset, smites, stimes.

Words within the letters "e-i-m-s-s-t"

-1 letter: emits, items, metis, mises, mists, mites, seism, semis, sites, smite, stems, sties, stime, times.

-2 letters: emit, isms, item, mess, mise, miss, mist, mite, seis, semi, sets, sims, site, sits, smit, stem, ties, time.

-3 letters: ems, ess, ism, its, met, mis, sei, set, sim, sis, sit, tie, tis.

-4 letters: em, es, et, is, it, me.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bemists, kismets, metisse, miseats, misseat, missent, missets, misstep, misters, mitises, mitoses, samites, smiters, somites, stimies, stymies, tamises, theisms, tsimmes.

 

+2 letters: amitoses, amosites, asterism, atheisms, atomises, casteism, chemists, diastems, distomes, egotisms, elitisms, erotisms, etatisms, exotisms, filmsets, impastes, imprests, itemises, leftisms, litmuses, mantises, massiest, mastixes, matiness, meshiest, mesquits, messiest, mestinos, mestizas, mestizos, metisses, metrists, mindsets, minsters, miscites, misdates, misedits, mismates, mismeets, misrates, misseats, misspelt, misspent, misstate, missteer, missteps, misstyle, mistakes, mistends, misterms, mistiest, mistimes, mistress, mistunes, mistypes, modistes, moistens, moistest, mortises, mossiest, mousiest, mushiest, muskiest, mussiest, mustiest, ostomies, pastimes, pietisms, seamiest, semisoft, semitist, sentimos, septimes, simplest, slimiest, slimmest, smarties, smithers, smithies, smokiest, spumiest, subitems, systemic, timeless, trimness, trisemes, trisomes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TMESIS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4D 45 53 49 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    --    .    ...    ..    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001101 01000101 01010011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#77 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004D 0045 0053 0049 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544739534353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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