Толковый словарь английского языка - syllepsis
Syllepsis
syllepsis
noun (plural syllepses) Etymology: Latin, from Greek syllēpsis, from syllambanein Date: circa 1550 the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case, the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense, sylleptic adjective
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n. (pl. syllepses) a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g. caught the train and a bad cold) or to two others of which it grammatically suits one only (e.g. neither they nor it is working) (cf. ZEUGMA). Derivatives sylleptic adj. sylleptically adv. Etymology: LL f. Gk sullepsis taking together f. sullambano: see SYLLABLE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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