English definition of Syllable

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Definition of syllable

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Syllable (n.) In writing and printing, a part of a word, separated from the rest, and capable of being pronounced by a single impulse of the voice. It may or may not correspond to a syllable in the spoken language..

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

Enunciate :: Enunciate (v. i.) To utter words or syllables articulately.

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.

Proceleusmatic :: Proceleusmatic (n.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.

Biliteral :: Biliteral (n.) A word, syllable, or root, consisting of two letters..

Ectasis :: Ectasis (n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Decasyllabic :: Decasyllabic (a.) Having, or consisting of, ten syllables..

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

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

Trochee :: Trochee (n.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus..

Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..

Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager..

Spondulics :: Spondee (n.) A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges..

Octosyllable :: Octosyllable (a.) Octosyllabic.

Division :: Division (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable..

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Dissyllable :: Dissyllable (n.) A word of two syllables; as, pa-per..

Postfix :: Postfix (v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix..

Penultimate :: Penultimate (a.) Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word..

Tribrach :: Tribrach (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius..