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syle |
syllabarium |
syllabary |
syllabe |
syllabic
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| syllabicate
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syllabic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective syllabic has 5 senses
- syllabic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable" Derived forms noun syllabicity1, noun syllable1
- syllabic(a = adj.pert) Array - consisting of or using a syllabary; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"
- syllabic(a = adj.all) Array - (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities; Array Antonyms: accentual, quantitative
- syllabic(a = adj.all) Array - consisting of a syllable or syllables; Array Antonym: nonsyllabic
- syllabic(a = adj.all) Array - (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable; "the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'" Antonym: nonsyllabic
Derived form noun syllable1
CIDE DICTIONARY
syllabic, a. [Gr. : cf. F. syllabique.].
- Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment. Earle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
syllabic, adj.
1 of, relating to, or based on syllables.
2 Prosody based on the number of syllables.
3 (of a symbol) representing a whole syllable.
4 articulated in syllables.
1 of, relating to, or based on syllables.
2 Prosody based on the number of syllables.
3 (of a symbol) representing a whole syllable.
4 articulated in syllables.
Derivative
syllabically adv. syllabicity n.
Etymology
F syllabique or LL syllabicus f. Gk sullabikos (as SYLLABLE)
THESAURUS
syllabic
accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph, grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter, lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic, pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing, written characterROGET THESAURUS
syllabic
Letter
N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.
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