Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tmesis

Tmesis (mē"sis or t'mē"sis; 277) , noun

[Latin, from Greek tmh^sis a cutting, from te`mnein to cut.]

(Grammar) The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.