Synonyms for "tmesis" (7 found)

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Closest matches (2)

diacope

Noun(1 words)

diacope

Strong matches (2)

hysteron proteronmetastasis

Related words (3)

palindromeparenthesistumbarumba

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

1 entries

infixation

Synonyms

2 entries

diacopetumbarumba

Related terms

7 entries

axonotmesisbloodyfuckinginfixneurotmesistmematmetic

has context

1 entries

prosody

related to

7 entries

bloodycompound wordfuckinginfixinsertiontmematmetic

Translations

24 translations across 20 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries

• тмезис noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Catalan

1 entries

• tmesi noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

• 分字法 noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)
• 插詞法 /插词法 noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Dutch

1 entries

• tmesis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Esperanto

1 entries

• tmezo noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Finnish

1 entries

• tmeesi noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

French

1 entries

• tmèse noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

German

1 entries

• Tmesis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Greek

1 entries

• τμήση noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Irish

1 entries

• timéis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Italian

1 entries

• tmesi noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Japanese

1 entries

• 切離 noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Latin

2 entries

• diacopē noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)
• tmēsis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Polish

1 entries

• tmeza noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Portuguese

1 entries

• tmese noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Russian

2 entries

• тме́зис noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)
• тме́сис noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

• tmeza noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)
• тмеза noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Spanish

1 entries

• tmesis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Swedish

1 entries

• tmesis noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

Tagalog

1 entries

• salingit noun (insertion of one or more words between the components of a word)

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