syllepsis

[ si-lep-sis ]
/ sɪˈlɛp sɪs /

noun, plural syl·lep·ses [si-lep-seez] /sɪˈlɛp siz/. Grammar.

the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
Compare zeugma.

Origin of syllepsis

1570–80; < Medieval Latin syllēpsis < Greek sýllēpsis, equivalent to syl- syl- + lēb- (variant stem of lambánein to take) + -sis -sis

OTHER WORDS FROM syllepsis

syl·lep·tic [si-lep-tik] /sɪˈlɛp tɪk/, adjective syl·lep·ti·cal·ly, adverb

British Dictionary definitions for sylleptic

syllepsis
/ (sɪˈlɛpsɪs) /

noun plural -ses (-siːz)

(in grammar or rhetoric) the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover two syntactical functions, as the verb form have in she and they have promised to come
another word for zeugma

Derived forms of syllepsis

sylleptic, adjective sylleptically, adverb

Word Origin for syllepsis

C16: from Late Latin, from Greek sullēpsis, from sul- syn- + lēpsis a taking, from lambanein to take