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Interlingua
Noun
syllaba (plural syllabas)
- syllable
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Pronunciation
Noun
syllaba f (genitive syllabae); first declension
- syllable
397 CE – 400 CE,
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis,
Cōnfessiōnēs 13.15:
- Vident enim faciem tuam semper, et ibi legunt sine syllabīs temporum, quid velit aeterna voluntās tua.
- For they always see your face, and they read there, without syllables of times, what your eternal will wills.
- (figuratively, in the plural) poems, verses
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “syllaba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “syllaba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- syllaba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lengthen the pronunciation of a syllable or letter: syllabam, litteram producere (opp. corripere) (Quintil. 9. 4. 89)
- this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
- a verbal, petty critic; a caviller: syllabarum auceps