syllaba

Interlingua

syllaba (plural syllabas)

From Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).

syllaba f (genitive syllabae); first declension

syllable
- 397 CE – 400 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Cōnfessiōnēs 13.15:
  Vident enim [angelī] faciem tuam semper, et ibi legunt sine syllabīs temporum, quid velit aeterna voluntās tua.
  For they [the messengers/angels] always see your face, and they read there, without syllables of times, what your eternal will wills.
(figuratively, in the plural) poems, verses

Asturian: sílaba
→ Catalan: síl·laba
→ English: syllaba anceps
Old French: sillable
- → Middle English: sillable, syllable
  - English: syllable
- French: syllabe
Galician: sílaba
→ Old High German: sillaba
- Middle High German: silbe, sillabe
  - German: Silbe
    - → Latvian: zilbe
    - → Romansch: silba
→ Old Irish: sillab
- Irish: siolla
Italian: sillaba
Portuguese: sílaba
Romanian: silabă
Spanish: sílaba
→ Welsh: syllaf, sill

“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^[1], 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