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Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables..

Antepenultimate :: Antepenultimate (a.) Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two.

Expletive :: Expletive (n.) A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath..

Euphony :: Euphony (n.) A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear..

Triphthong :: Triphthong (n.) A combination of three vowel sounds in a single syllable, forming a simple or compound sound; also, a union of three vowel characters, representing together a single sound; a trigraph; as, eye, -ieu in adieu, -eau in beau, are examples of triphthongs..

Fa :: Fa (n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.

Preantenultimate :: Preantenultimate (a.) Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult..

Parisyllabical :: Parisyllabical (a.) Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

Epitrite :: Epitrite (n.) A foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.

Perispomenon :: Perispomenon (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.

Prefix :: Prefix (v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement..

Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..

Syllabication :: Syllabicate (v. t.) To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Y :: Y () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 145, 178-9, 272..

Reduplication :: Reduplication (n.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci..

Accent :: Accent (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Antispast :: Antispast (n.) A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#)..

Synneuroses :: Synizesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.

Monosyllabled :: Monosyllabled (a.) Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables..

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