synecdochen.

Etymology: < classical Latin synecdochē (in post-classical Latin also synodoche (13th cent. in British sources)) < Hellenistic Greek συνεκδοχή understanding one thing with another < συν- syn- prefix + ancient Greek ἐκδοχή receiving from the hands of another, succession, in Hellenistic Greek also taking in a certain sense, interpretation ( < ἐκ- (see ex- prefix²) + δοχή receptacle < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the base of δέχεσθαι to receive: see pandect n.¹), after συνεκδέχεσθαι, lit. ‘to take with something else’. Compare Middle French synecdoche (1541; 15th cent. as synodoche; French synecdoque), Catalan sinècdoque (1696), Spanish sinécdoque (1580 or earlier; formerly also as †sinédoque), Portuguese sinédoque (15th cent. as †sinodoche), Italian sineddoche (14th cent.), and also German Synekdoche (1536 as †synecdocha).The form sinecdochine is after the accusative forms classical Latin synecdochen , Hellenistic Greek συνεκδοχήν . Forms in -es are inferred nominatives from the Latin accusative form; compare the forms syncopis , syncopin at syncope n. and discussion at that entry.