syllabicate

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English

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Etymology

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First attested in 1654; back-formation from syllabication.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: sĭlăʹbĭkāt, IPA(key): /sɪˈlæbɪkeɪt/
  • Hyphenation: syl‧lab‧i‧cate

Verb

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syllabicate (third-person singular simple present syllabicates, present participle syllabicating, simple past and past participle syllabicated)

  1. (rare) To syllabify.
    • 1654, Joseph Brooksbank, Plain, brief, and pertinent Rules for the judicious and artificial Syllabication of all English Words, page 27:
      To Syllabicate, which is to find out a word by its syllables.

References

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  • Sylla·bicate” listed (immediately preceding “Syllabication”) on page 357 of volume IX, part II (Su–Th) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1919]
      Sylla·bicate, v. rare — °. [Back-formation f. next.] trans. ‘To form into syllables.’ [¶] 1775 Ash Suppl. Hence in later Dicts.
  • syˈllabicate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]