συλλαβή
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “bring together”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /syl.la.bɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /syl.laˈbe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /syl.laˈβi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /syl.laˈvi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /si.laˈvi/
Noun
σῠλλᾰβή • (sullabḗ) f (genitive σῠλλᾰβῆς); first declension
- conception, pregnancy
- that which holds together, i.e. a girdle
- (music) the chord called the fourth
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ σῠλλᾰβή hē sullabḗ |
τὼ σῠλλᾰβᾱ́ tṑ sullabā́ |
αἱ σῠλλᾰβαί hai sullabaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς σῠλλᾰβῆς tês sullabês |
τοῖν σῠλλᾰβαῖν toîn sullabaîn |
τῶν σῠλλᾰβῶν tôn sullabôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ σῠλλᾰβῇ têi sullabêi |
τοῖν σῠλλᾰβαῖν toîn sullabaîn |
ταῖς σῠλλᾰβαῖς taîs sullabaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν σῠλλᾰβήν tḕn sullabḗn |
τὼ σῠλλᾰβᾱ́ tṑ sullabā́ |
τᾱ̀ς σῠλλᾰβᾱ́ς tā̀s sullabā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σῠλλᾰβή sullabḗ |
σῠλλᾰβᾱ́ sullabā́ |
σῠλλᾰβαί sullabaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀλῐγοσῠ́λλᾰβος (oligosúllabos)
Descendants
- Greek: συλλαβή (syllaví)
Further reading
- “συλλαβή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- συλλαβή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- syllable idem, page 850.
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ).
Noun
συλλαβή • (syllaví) f (plural συλλαβές)
Declension
declension of συλλαβή
See also
- λήγουσα f (lígousa, “last syllable of a word”)
- παραλήγουσα f (paralígousa, “penultimate syllable in word”)
- προπαραλήγουσα f (proparalígousa, “antepenultimate syllable in word”)
Further reading
συλλαβή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
