TMESIS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Grammar, a figure by which a compound word is separated into two parts by the intervention of one or more words, as in the following line of Terence, " Quae meo cunque animo lubitum est facere, " for " quascunque meo animo." This figure is a licence in the Latin language, frequent in Terence and Lucretius, rare in later writers; in the Greek it is more common; but of all Western languages, the German lends itself most readily to the division of compound words. In English the figure is unused. [s. 1255]