Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Word Splurge

Tmesis


tme·sis : Pronunciation Key (tmss, m-)
n. pl. tme·ses (-sz)

Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go.


[Late Latin tmsis, from Greek, a cutting, from temnein, to cut. See tem- in Indo-European Roots.]

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