Tmesis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In grammar, a figure by which a compound word is separated into two parts, and one or more words are inserted between them: as, “of whom be thou ware also” (2 Tim. iv. 15), for “of whom beware thou also.” Also called diacope.
    • Word Usage
    "This is called tmesis: "What man soever" we've put one word between the syllables of another word."
    Cross Reference
    infix    diacope   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tumbarumba   
     
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