synchysis
Meanings
noun
- A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
- Confused arrangement of words in a sentence.
- A confused mixture.
- Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin synchysis, from Ancient Greek σύγχυσις (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).
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