συνίζησις

English (LSJ)

εως, ἡ,

   A subsidence, collapse, of the earth, ἐς τὰ κοῖλα Id.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., EM735.36, Sch.Heph.2.1; but = συγκοπή, EM279.8.    3 compression of air, Hero Spir.Praef.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1025] ἡ, das Zusammensinken, -fallen, Plut. Crass. 2; der Bodensatz. – Bei den Gramm. das Zusammenziehen zweier Vocale in eine Sylbe.