sylleptic

Variant of syllepsis

noun pl. syllepses

a grammatical construction in which a single word is used in a syntactic relationship with two or more words in the same sentence, though it can agree with only one of them in gender, number, or case (Ex.: either they or I am wrong)

Origin: L < Gr syllēpsis, a putting together < syllambanein: see syllable

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