συνίζησις

συνίζ-ησις, εως, ἡ,

• subsidence, collapse, of the earth, ἐς τὰ κοῖλα Arist. Mu. 396a3 (but γῆ [ἐγένετο] κατὰ συνίζησιν (sc. τοῦ ὕδατος) Sch. Hes. Th. 115); οἰκοδομημάτων Plu. Crass. 2: metaph., Plot. 2.2.1.
• • • 2 synizesis, melting of two vowels into one, without alteration of letters, as in πόλεως, μὴ οὐ, etc., EM 735.36, Sch. Heph. 2.1; but = συγκοπή, EM 279.8.
    • 3 compression of air, Hero Spir.Praef.