synizesis

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  1. noun Linguistics The union in pronunciation of two adjacent vowels into one syllable without forming a diphthong.
  2. noun Biology The phase of meiosis in some species in which the chromatin contracts into a mass at one side of the nucleus.

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  1. Late Latin synizēsis, from Greek sunizēsis, from sunizein, to collapse : sun-, syn- + hizein, to settle down; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin synizesis, from Greek συνίζησ, σ1ις, a collapse, a contraction of two vowels into one, from συνιζάνειν, collapse, shrink up, from σύν, together, + ἱζάνειν, settle down, sink in, from ἱζειν, seat, place, sit down.
 

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