syllabic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /sɪˈlɑːbɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æbɪk
- Hyphenation: syl‧lab‧ic
Adjective
[edit]syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)
- 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..
- 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
[edit]- alphasyllabic
- ambisyllabic
- anisosyllabic
- asyllabic
- bisyllabic
- brachysyllabic
- decasyllabic
- dissyllabic
- disyllabic
- dodecasyllabic
- duodecasyllabic
- duosyllabic
- endecasyllabic
- extrasyllabic
- graphosyllabic
- hendecasyllabic
- heptasyllabic
- heterosyllabic
- hexasyllabic
- imparisyllabic
- intersyllabic
- intrasyllabic
- isosyllabic
- logosyllabic
- monosyllabic
- morphosyllabic
- multisyllabic
- nonasyllabic
- nonpolysyllabic
- non-syllabic
- nonsyllabic
- octasyllabic
- octosyllabic
- parasyllabic
- parisyllabic
- pentasyllabic
- polysyllabic
- presyllabic
- quadrisyllabic
- quindecasyllabic
- quinquesyllabic
- semantosyllabic
- semisyllabic
- septasyllabic
- sesquisyllabic
- sexisyllabic
- subsyllabic
- suprasyllabic
- syllabic abbreviation
- syllabical
- syllabically
- syllabication
- syllabic break
- syllabic consonant
- syllabicity
- syllabicness
- syllabic rhyme
- tautosyllabic
- tetrasyllabic
- tridecasyllabic
- trisyllabic
- undecasyllabic
- unsyllabic
- varisyllabic
Translations
[edit]of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable
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in linguistics
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Noun
[edit]syllabic (plural syllabics)
- (phonetics) A syllabic sound.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æbɪk
- Rhymes:English/æbɪk/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with quotations
- en:Linguistics
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Phonetics