syllabic

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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)

  1. Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
    • 2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270:
      Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..
  2. Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
  3. (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 (), the two syllabic sounds are and .
  4. 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.

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Noun

syllabic (plural syllabics)

  1. (phonetics) A syllabic sound.
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