English

Noun

apokoinou

1. (rhetoric) A blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentence. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: apo‧koi‧nou

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπό ‎(apó) + κοινός ‎(koinós, “in common”)

Noun

apokoinou f ‎(plural apokoinous)

1. A rhetorical device similar to a zeugma or elliptical construction. An apokoinou is the blending of two sentences through a common word which has two syntactic functions, one for each of the sentence. The word common to both sentences is often a predicate object in the first and a subject in the second.

   It was he told me about it.

   There was a door led to the kitchen.