syllaba anceps
English
Etymology
Latin: syllaba (“syllable”) + anceps (“double-headed, uncertain”)
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: sĭʹləbə ănʹsĕps, IPA(key): /ˈsɪləbə ˈænsɛps/
Noun
syllaba anceps (plural syllabae ancipites)
- (prosody) A syllable of unfixed or undecided weight.
- 1908, Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt [eds.], The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Egypt Exploration Fund), volume 5, issues 840–844, page 17
- Syllabae ancipites at the ends of lines are […]
- ante 1971, Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (1973, University of California Press, →ISBN; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part VI: “Conclusions”, § 1: ‘The Ancient Evidence’, page 51
- The name of L constitutes one syllable, but its position at the end of the (dactylic-hexameter) line makes it a syllaba anceps, either long or short, and any one of three interpretations seems possible: el (with the preceding word, geminat, having a long final syllable, the A retaining its original length, as we find in even later poets), or le (with Strzelecki, the E being long or short), or ll (with Marx), i.e., sonant/syllabic l (as others put it).
- 1908, Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt [eds.], The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (Egypt Exploration Fund), volume 5, issues 840–844, page 17
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.la.ba ˈan.keps/, [ˈs̠ʏlːʲäbä ˈäŋkɛps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsil.la.ba ˈan.t͡ʃeps/, [ˈsilːäbä ˈän̠ʲt͡ʃeps]
Noun
syllaba anceps f (genitive syllabae ancipitis); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun with a third-declension adjective.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | syllaba anceps | syllabae ancipitēs |
Genitive | syllabae ancipitis | syllabārum ancipitium |
Dative | syllabae ancipitī | syllabīs ancipitibus |
Accusative | syllabam ancipitem | syllabās ancipitēs |
Ablative | syllabā ancipitī | syllabīs ancipitibus |
Vocative | syllaba anceps | syllabae ancipitēs |
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