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prettygoodwordTime for another theme week, I think. Given it's been a while since the last one. And more importantly, I happen to have a week's worth of words beginning with T that I need to get rid of use.
tmesis (t(uh)-MEE-sis) - n., the interpolation of one or more words between syllables of another word.
Often between parts of a compound, but not always, as in-freakin'-credible as that may seem. An example that does break the compound is "what man soever." A variety of infix, to use the linguistic instead of rhetorical term. Borrowed around 1580 from Latin, from Greek tmēsis, act of cutting, from temnein, to cut, making it a cognate of suffix of appendectomy and other surgical removals.
---L.
tmesis (t(uh)-MEE-sis) - n., the interpolation of one or more words between syllables of another word.
Often between parts of a compound, but not always, as in-freakin'-credible as that may seem. An example that does break the compound is "what man soever." A variety of infix, to use the linguistic instead of rhetorical term. Borrowed around 1580 from Latin, from Greek tmēsis, act of cutting, from temnein, to cut, making it a cognate of suffix of appendectomy and other surgical removals.
---L.
