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‖ synalœpha, -phe, n. Gram.|sɪnəˈliːfə|, |-fiː|
Also -le-.
[late L., a. Gr. συναλοιϕή, f. συναλείϕειν to smear or melt together, f. σύν syn-1 + ἀλείϕειν to anoint. In F. synalèphe, It., Sp. sinalefa, Pg. synalepha.]
The coalescence or contraction of two syllables into one; esp. the coalescence (in verse) of two vowels at the end of one word and the beginning of the next, by obscuration of the former (or, loosely, by suppression of it, in which case more properly called elision). † Also in humorous allusion (quot. 1698).
1540Palsgr. Acolastus E iij b, Whan so euer a worde endeth in a vowel, the nexte word folowyng begynnynge with a vowell..than shall the vowell that the precedent worde ended in, be drouned, and not accounted in scannynge, by this fygure Synalœpha. 1602Campion Art Engl. Poesie 38 The Synalœphas or Elisions in our toong are either necessary to auoid the..gaping in our verse..or may be vsd at pleasure, as for let vs to say let's. 1685Dryden Sylvæ Pref., Poet. Wks. (1910) 384 [Ovid] avoids..all Synalœpha's, or cutting off one Vowel when it comes before another, in the following word. 1698Farquhar Love & Bottle v. ii, I'll cut off one of his Limbs, I'll make a Synalœpha of him. 1741J. Martyn tr. Virg. Georg. i. 4 note (1811) 2/1 Some editions have atque, between pecori and apibus, to avoid a synalœpha. 1827Tate Grk. Metres in Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 445 Hegelochus, who acted the part of Orestes..when he came to v. 273, ἐκ κυµάτων γἀρ αὖθις αὖ γαλήν' ὁρῶ, wanting breath to pronounce γαλήν' ὁρῶ with the delicate synalepha required,..stopped between the words, and uttered these sounds instead, γαλῆν ὁρῶ. 1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sci., etc. s.v., The synalæpha is commonly..adopted in Italian and Spanish poetry.
Hence † synalœpha v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to contract by synalœpha (in quot. fig.).
1661Feltham Resolves ii. lvi. (ed. 6) 302 Whatsoever he does well, is presently detracted from, till it be lessened and synalœpha'd [ed. 1677 synalœph'd] into nothing. |