syllabic
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin syllabicus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
- (linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
- Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
Derived terms
- anisosyllabic
- bisyllabic
- brachysyllabic
- decasyllabic
- dodecasyllabic
- extrasyllabic
- hendecasyllabic
- heptasyllabic
- heterosyllabic
- hexasyllabic
- imparisyllabic
- intersyllabic
- intrasyllabic
- isosyllabic
- monosyllabic
- morphosyllabic
- multisyllabic
- nonasyllabic
- nonsyllabic
- octasyllabic
- octosyllabic
- pentasyllabic
- polysyllabic
- presyllabic
- quadrisyllabic
- quinquesyllabic
- semantosyllabic
- semi-syllabic
- septasyllabic
- sesquisyllabic
- subsyllabic
- syllabic abbreviation
- syllabical
- syllabically
- syllabic break
- syllabicity
- syllabicness
- syllabic rhyme
- tautosyllabic
- tetrasyllabic
- trisyllabic
- unsyllabic
Translations
of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable
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in linguistics
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Noun
syllabic (plural syllabics)
- (linguistics) A syllabic sound.