syllablen.

/ˈsɪləb(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English–1600s sillable, (Middle English silable, Middle English sillabil, sillabyl, sylable, sylabul, syllabylle, cyllable, 1600s sillabell), 1500s– syllable. β. dialectMiddle English, 1800s sinnable, 1800s synnable.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman sillable = Old French sillabe (12th cent.), modern French syllabe , < Latin syllaba , < Greek συλλαβή , < συλλαμβάνειν to take, put, or bring together, < σύν syn- prefix + λαμβάνειν (stem λαβ-) to take.

a. A vocal sound or set of sounds uttered with a single effort of articulation and forming a word or an element of a word; each of the elements of spoken language comprising a sound of greater sonority (vowel or vowel-equivalent) with or without one or more sounds of less sonority (consonants or consonant-equivalents); also, a character or set of characters forming a corresponding element of written language.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable

syllablec1384

syllabc1440

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 8 Though somme vers fayle in A sillable.

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 93 After the forme vsed in his langage With outen vice of silable or of lettre.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 437 Ascanius was i-cleped Iulus..a name of tweie silables.

c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 33 In þis writynge..Yf ouȝt be mys in word, sillable, or dede, I submitte me to correccioun withoute ony debate.

a1491 J. Rows Roll vii. (1859) B 3 b The furst sinnable of hys naavm [sc. Arth~gallus] that ys to seey Arth or Narthe is asmuch to sey in Walsh as a bere.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiii^v Nat clippyng the syllables, nor skyppyng any worde.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 40 Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours.

a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 60 Our English tong, hauing in vse chiefly, wordes of one syllable.

1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 44 When is a Noune said to increase? A. When it hath moe syllables in the Genitiue case, then in the Nominatiue.

a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 281 Return, Re—— in this Syllable she fail'd.

1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. vii. 175 On the back ground the front of a castle with columns; on the bases of which are the syllables Es—sex.

1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music I. 734/1 The sounds [of each hexachord] are sung..to the syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, the semitone always falling between the syllables mi and fa.

1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics §150 Hence the ear learns to divide a breath-group into groups of vowels (or vowel-equivalents), each flanked by consonants (or consonant-equivalents)—or, in other words, into syllable-formers or syllabics, and non-syllabics, each of these groups constituting a syllable.

1899 R. J. Lloyd Northern English §105 Speech is a succession of sounds continually rising and falling in sonority. Each single short wave of sonority, one rise and one fall, is a syllable.

1899 R. J. Lloyd Northern English §107 The most sonorous phone of a syllable is its vowel: the rest are its consonants.

1908 H. Sweet Sounds of Eng. §150 The beginning of a syllable corresponds to the beginning of the stress with which it is uttered. Thus in atone the strong stress and the second syllable begin on the t, and in bookcase buk:keis on the second k.

b. Used pregnantly of a word of one syllable, or in reference to a part of a word, considered in relation to its significance.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > word having specific number > word of one syllable

syllable1390

monosyllable1533

monosyllabon1576

monosyllabe1582

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 343 That o sillable [sc. nay] hath overthrowe A thousend wordes.

1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 21 Learne this definition diligently, and especially so exercise this pronoune our, that this one sillable being beleeued, may swallow vp all thy sinnes.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 115 This syllable Sir, which is the title whereby we call our knights.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 267 [The Fox and Marton] are desired onelye for the two last sillables of theire Carcases [i.e. ‘cases’ = skins].

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 175 Those awful syllables, hell, death, and sin.

1796 E. Burke Let. Dec. (1970) IX. 170 What can make us in love with oppression because the Syllables Jacobin are not put before the ism?

c. Colloquial phrase in words of one syllable, in simple language.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adverb]

aefauldlyOE

plainlyc1385

simply?c1400

nakedlya1535

simple1550

inornatelya1568

spruce?1605

dryly1635

chastely1815

unadornedly1820

inelaborately1846

in words of one syllable1922

1922 F. H. Burnett Head of House of Coombe xvii. 206 The French Revolution..—the cataclysms of agony—need not have been, but they were. To put it in words of one syllable.

1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 218 Let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant.

1966 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder makes Wheels go Round xxi. 166 ‘John,’ he said breathlessly, ‘would you please explain in words of one syllable.’

1970 Guardian 9 Mar. 24/1 Why don't they tell us precisely, in words of one syllable, how they would behave if they were in our place?

a. The least portion or detail of speech or writing (or of something expressed or expressible in speech or writing); the least mention, hint, or trace of something: esp. in negative context.

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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > a detail or least portion of

syllable1434

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 118 All our prayer with desire and effect sal be, so þat we ouer-rynne not þe wordis, bot nerehand all sillabyls with grete cry & desire we sal offyr to owr lorde.

1533 T. More Apologye 8 b Of all theyr owne wordes I leue not one syllable out.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Cciv One sillable of thine shall more perswade mee, then the sage sentences of anye other.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 5 I heard Each sillable that breath made vp betweene 'em.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 20 To the last Syllable of Recorded time.

1687 F. Atterbury Answer Considerations Spirit Luther 47 To this there's not a syllable of proof offer'd.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 27 I know every syllable of the matter.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 2 Don't say a syllable of the matter to any living soul.

1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) iii. i. 34 There isn't a syllable of sense in all you have been saying.

1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 189 The name of Dante is mentioned but once, and then without a syllable of comment.

1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold ii. iii I ain't a-going to breathe a synnable.

†b. plural. Minute details of language or statement; exact or precise words. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [noun] > precise words

syllables1597

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxviii. 182 Our imitation of him consisteth not in tying scrupulously our selues vnto his sillables.

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. i. 173 Whose syllables I the rather cite, because..he iustifies himself out of the Instrument of that Donation, which, by his assertion, he made vse of.

†3. With reference to the etymological sense: A composite thing, a compound. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 849 Life and Understanding..are no Syllables or Complexions,..nor can either the Qualities of Heat and Cold, Moist and Dry; or else Magnitudes, Figures, Sites, and Motions, however Combined together, as Letters Spell them out, and make them up.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

syllable-count n.

ΚΠ

1969 Language 45 250 The text itself is composed in syllable-count verse forms.

1983 Listener 6 Jan. 21/3 Pop lyrics writers throw in an ‘oh yeah’ or a ‘baby’ wherever the syllable-count needs padding out.

syllable-division n.

ΚΠ

1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §19 It is possible to alter the syllable division by shifting the stress from one element to another.

syllable-former n.

ΚΠ

1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics §150 Syllable-formers [see syllabic n. 2].

syllable stress n.

ΚΠ

1924 H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. i. 6 Word-stress (in the opinion of the author the term syllable-stress would be more appropriate). This term is used with reference to a syllable.

1964 W. S. Allen in D. Abercombie et al. Daniel Jones 14 These remarks on English verse are intended only to apply to the ‘syllable-stress’ metres.

syllable-stumbling n.

ΚΠ

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Syllable-stumbling, a form of paralytic dysphasia in which there is difficulty in speaking a word as a whole, although each letter and syllable can be distinctly sounded.

syllable-counting n.

ΚΠ

1959 PMLA 74 588/2 This has been done on strictly accentual (plus syllable-counting) principles.

1978 Early Music 6 587/3 He describes in detail three kinds of relationship..between words and music in the period—the metrical..the accentual..the syllable-counting (the characteristic mode of Christian and much courtly poetry).

syllable-final n.

ΚΠ

1964 B. Malmberg in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 116 Many languages have an opposition between explosive (syllable-initial) and implosive (syllable-final) consonant.

1978 Language 54 23 Durand..points out that the [t] in petit orage ‘little storm’ is syllable-initial, while the [t] in petite orange ‘little orange’ appears to be syllable-final for most speakers.

syllable-initial n.

ΚΠ

1964 [see syllable-final n.]. 1978 [see syllable-final n.].

C2.

syllable-monger n. one who makes verses (regarded merely as an orderly arrangement of syllables).Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1784 W. Cowper Let. 5 Apr. (1981) II. 232 As my two syllable mongers, Beattie and Blair both agree, that language was originally inspired [etc.].

syllable-timed adj. of or having a rhythm in which syllables occur at roughly equivalent time intervals; opposed to stress-timed adj. s.v. stress n. Compounds 1d.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > of rhythm in which syllables occur regularly

isosyllabic1922

syllable-timed1947

1947 K. L. Pike Phonemics i. ii. 13/1 In English one tends to hear stress-timed rhythm in contra-distinction to a syllable-timed rhythm. In the syllable-timed type the syllables themselves tend to be more or less equally spaced... As a result of the syllable timing the vowels are likely to be clear cut.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 108 This, as well as the syllable-timed rhythm, gives rise to the staccato impression often noticed by outsiders.

syllable-timing n.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > rhythm in which syllables occur regularly

syllable-timing1964

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 72 The English type of rhythm is known as ‘stress-timing’, by contrast with the ‘syllable timing’ of French.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

syllablev.

Etymology: < syllable n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsyllable.

1. transitive. ? To arrange in syllables. rare.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables > arrange in syllables

syllablec1475

c1475 Partenay 6581 Als the frensh staffes silabled be More breueloker and shorter also Then is the english lines vnto see.

a. To utter or express in (or as in) syllables or articulate speech; to pronounce syllable by syllable; to utter articulately or distinctly; to articulate. Also figurative.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables

syllable1633

syllabicate1654

syllabize1656

syllablize1877

syllabify1926

1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 85 in Purple Island Unwritten Word, which never eye could see, Yet syllabled in flesh~spell'd character.

1637 J. Milton Comus 8 Ayrie tongues, that syllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.

1751 Ld. Stormont On Death Frederic Pr. Wales 6 in Epicedia Oxoniensia C 2 To syllable new sounds in accent strange.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. i. 70 I cannot shape my tongue To syllable black deeds into smooth names.

1852 J. G. Whittier First-day Thoughts 7 There syllabled by silence, let me hear The still small voice which reached the prophet's ear.

1886 M. E. Braddon One Thing Needful v The first prayer those lips had ever syllabled.

b. To read (something) syllable by syllable; to read in detail or with close attention; to spell out. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > read attentively or laboriously

spella1400

studya1425

nit1596

finger1653

syllable1724

society > communication > writing > spelling > spell [verb (transitive)] > form a word with letters > syllable by syllable

syllable1724

1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden p. xxxii This bruitish, carnal Age knows not what it is to syllable the Scriptures, or feed upon them.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 35/1 These things were the Alphabet, whereby in after-time he was to syllable and partly read the grand Volume of the World.

c. To represent by syllables. rare.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables > represent by syllables

syllable1887

1887 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200/2 Loud notes [of a snipe] that have been syllabled tinker, tinker, tinker.

3. intransitive. To utter syllables, to speak.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 17 Turn'd—syllabling thus, ‘Ah, Lycius bright’.

Derivatives

ˈsyllabled adj. /-b(ə)ld/

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > uttered in

syllabicala1732

syllabled1843

syllabic1890

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 176 Men had not a hammer to begin with, not a syllabled articulation.

1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvii. 264 The tree-whispers sounded like a syllabled sympathy.

1885 J. H. Dell Dawning Grey, Songs of Surges 98 The songs of the surges I shaped to a syllabled sound.

ˈsyllabling n.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > division into or utterance of

syllabication1631

syllabling1819

syllabification1838

syllabation1856

syllabism1892

syllabization1926

1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 215 The three words drawn to the utmost extent of syllabling.

1876 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxxi. §2. 360 The painted syllabling of it.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	syllable
释义	syllablen. /ˈsɪləb(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English–1600s sillable, (Middle English silable, Middle English sillabil, sillabyl, sylable, sylabul, syllabylle, cyllable, 1600s sillabell), 1500s– syllable. β. dialectMiddle English, 1800s sinnable, 1800s synnable. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman sillable = Old French sillabe (12th cent.), modern French syllabe , < Latin syllaba , < Greek συλλαβή , < συλλαμβάνειν to take, put, or bring together, < σύν syn- prefix + λαμβάνειν (stem λαβ-) to take. 1. a. A vocal sound or set of sounds uttered with a single effort of articulation and forming a word or an element of a word; each of the elements of spoken language comprising a sound of greater sonority (vowel or vowel-equivalent) with or without one or more sounds of less sonority (consonants or consonant-equivalents); also, a character or set of characters forming a corresponding element of written language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable syllablec1384 syllabc1440 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 8 Though somme vers fayle in A sillable. c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 93 After the forme vsed in his langage With outen vice of silable or of lettre. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 437 Ascanius was i-cleped Iulus..a name of tweie silables. c1450 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 33 In þis writynge..Yf ouȝt be mys in word, sillable, or dede, I submitte me to correccioun withoute ony debate. a1491 J. Rows Roll vii. (1859) B 3 b The furst sinnable of hys naavm [sc. Arth~gallus] that ys to seey Arth or Narthe is asmuch to sey in Walsh as a bere. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiii^v Nat clippyng the syllables, nor skyppyng any worde. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 40 Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 60 Our English tong, hauing in vse chiefly, wordes of one syllable. 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts f. 44 When is a Noune said to increase? A. When it hath moe syllables in the Genitiue case, then in the Nominatiue. a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 281 Return, Re—— in this Syllable she fail'd. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. vii. 175 On the back ground the front of a castle with columns; on the bases of which are the syllables Es—sex. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music I. 734/1 The sounds [of each hexachord] are sung..to the syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, the semitone always falling between the syllables mi and fa. 1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics §150 Hence the ear learns to divide a breath-group into groups of vowels (or vowel-equivalents), each flanked by consonants (or consonant-equivalents)—or, in other words, into syllable-formers or syllabics, and non-syllabics, each of these groups constituting a syllable. 1899 R. J. Lloyd Northern English §105 Speech is a succession of sounds continually rising and falling in sonority. Each single short wave of sonority, one rise and one fall, is a syllable. 1899 R. J. Lloyd Northern English §107 The most sonorous phone of a syllable is its vowel: the rest are its consonants. 1908 H. Sweet Sounds of Eng. §150 The beginning of a syllable corresponds to the beginning of the stress with which it is uttered. Thus in atone the strong stress and the second syllable begin on the t, and in bookcase buk:keis on the second k. b. Used pregnantly of a word of one syllable, or in reference to a part of a word, considered in relation to its significance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > word having specific number > word of one syllable syllable1390 monosyllable1533 monosyllabon1576 monosyllabe1582 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 343 That o sillable [sc. nay] hath overthrowe A thousend wordes. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 21 Learne this definition diligently, and especially so exercise this pronoune our, that this one sillable being beleeued, may swallow vp all thy sinnes. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 115 This syllable Sir, which is the title whereby we call our knights. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 267 [The Fox and Marton] are desired onelye for the two last sillables of theire Carcases [i.e. ‘cases’ = skins]. 1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 175 Those awful syllables, hell, death, and sin. 1796 E. Burke Let. Dec. (1970) IX. 170 What can make us in love with oppression because the Syllables Jacobin are not put before the ism? c. Colloquial phrase in words of one syllable, in simple language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adverb] aefauldlyOE plainlyc1385 simply?c1400 nakedlya1535 simple1550 inornatelya1568 spruce?1605 dryly1635 chastely1815 unadornedly1820 inelaborately1846 in words of one syllable1922 1922 F. H. Burnett Head of House of Coombe xvii. 206 The French Revolution..—the cataclysms of agony—need not have been, but they were. To put it in words of one syllable. 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 218 Let's talk in words of one syllable, without larding, stuffing or cant. 1966 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder makes Wheels go Round xxi. 166 ‘John,’ he said breathlessly, ‘would you please explain in words of one syllable.’ 1970 Guardian 9 Mar. 24/1 Why don't they tell us precisely, in words of one syllable, how they would behave if they were in our place? 2. a. The least portion or detail of speech or writing (or of something expressed or expressible in speech or writing); the least mention, hint, or trace of something: esp. in negative context. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > a detail or least portion of syllable1434 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 118 All our prayer with desire and effect sal be, so þat we ouer-rynne not þe wordis, bot nerehand all sillabyls with grete cry & desire we sal offyr to owr lorde. 1533 T. More Apologye 8 b Of all theyr owne wordes I leue not one syllable out. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Cciv One sillable of thine shall more perswade mee, then the sage sentences of anye other. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 5 I heard Each sillable that breath made vp betweene 'em. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. v. 20 To the last Syllable of Recorded time. View more context for this quotation 1687 F. Atterbury Answer Considerations Spirit Luther 47 To this there's not a syllable of proof offer'd. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 27 I know every syllable of the matter. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 2 Don't say a syllable of the matter to any living soul. 1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) iii. i. 34 There isn't a syllable of sense in all you have been saying. 1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 189 The name of Dante is mentioned but once, and then without a syllable of comment. 1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold ii. iii I ain't a-going to breathe a synnable. †b. plural. Minute details of language or statement; exact or precise words. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [noun] > precise words syllables1597 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxviii. 182 Our imitation of him consisteth not in tying scrupulously our selues vnto his sillables. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. i. 173 Whose syllables I the rather cite, because..he iustifies himself out of the Instrument of that Donation, which, by his assertion, he made vse of. †3. With reference to the etymological sense: A composite thing, a compound. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 849 Life and Understanding..are no Syllables or Complexions,..nor can either the Qualities of Heat and Cold, Moist and Dry; or else Magnitudes, Figures, Sites, and Motions, however Combined together, as Letters Spell them out, and make them up. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. syllable-count n. ΚΠ 1969 Language 45 250 The text itself is composed in syllable-count verse forms. 1983 Listener 6 Jan. 21/3 Pop lyrics writers throw in an ‘oh yeah’ or a ‘baby’ wherever the syllable-count needs padding out. syllable-division n. ΚΠ 1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §19 It is possible to alter the syllable division by shifting the stress from one element to another. syllable-former n. ΚΠ 1890 H. Sweet Primer of Phonetics §150 Syllable-formers [see syllabic n. 2]. syllable stress n. ΚΠ 1924 H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. i. 6 Word-stress (in the opinion of the author the term syllable-stress would be more appropriate). This term is used with reference to a syllable. 1964 W. S. Allen in D. Abercombie et al. Daniel Jones 14 These remarks on English verse are intended only to apply to the ‘syllable-stress’ metres. syllable-stumbling n. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Syllable-stumbling, a form of paralytic dysphasia in which there is difficulty in speaking a word as a whole, although each letter and syllable can be distinctly sounded. b. syllable-counting n. ΚΠ 1959 PMLA 74 588/2 This has been done on strictly accentual (plus syllable-counting) principles. 1978 Early Music 6 587/3 He describes in detail three kinds of relationship..between words and music in the period—the metrical..the accentual..the syllable-counting (the characteristic mode of Christian and much courtly poetry). syllable-final n. ΚΠ 1964 B. Malmberg in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 116 Many languages have an opposition between explosive (syllable-initial) and implosive (syllable-final) consonant. 1978 Language 54 23 Durand..points out that the [t] in petit orage ‘little storm’ is syllable-initial, while the [t] in petite orange ‘little orange’ appears to be syllable-final for most speakers. syllable-initial n. ΚΠ 1964 [see syllable-final n.]. 1978 [see syllable-final n.]. C2. syllable-monger n. one who makes verses (regarded merely as an orderly arrangement of syllables).Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1784 W. Cowper Let. 5 Apr. (1981) II. 232 As my two syllable mongers, Beattie and Blair both agree, that language was originally inspired [etc.]. syllable-timed adj. of or having a rhythm in which syllables occur at roughly equivalent time intervals; opposed to stress-timed adj. s.v. stress n. Compounds 1d. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > of rhythm in which syllables occur regularly isosyllabic1922 syllable-timed1947 1947 K. L. Pike Phonemics i. ii. 13/1 In English one tends to hear stress-timed rhythm in contra-distinction to a syllable-timed rhythm. In the syllable-timed type the syllables themselves tend to be more or less equally spaced... As a result of the syllable timing the vowels are likely to be clear cut. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 108 This, as well as the syllable-timed rhythm, gives rise to the staccato impression often noticed by outsiders. syllable-timing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > rhythm in which syllables occur regularly syllable-timing1964 1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 72 The English type of rhythm is known as ‘stress-timing’, by contrast with the ‘syllable timing’ of French. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021). syllablev. Etymology: < syllable n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsyllable. 1. transitive. ? To arrange in syllables. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables > arrange in syllables syllablec1475 c1475 Partenay 6581 Als the frensh staffes silabled be More breueloker and shorter also Then is the english lines vnto see. 2. a. To utter or express in (or as in) syllables or articulate speech; to pronounce syllable by syllable; to utter articulately or distinctly; to articulate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables syllable1633 syllabicate1654 syllabize1656 syllablize1877 syllabify1926 1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 85 in Purple Island Unwritten Word, which never eye could see, Yet syllabled in flesh~spell'd character. 1637 J. Milton Comus 8 Ayrie tongues, that syllable mens names On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses. 1751 Ld. Stormont On Death Frederic Pr. Wales 6 in Epicedia Oxoniensia C 2 To syllable new sounds in accent strange. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. i. 70 I cannot shape my tongue To syllable black deeds into smooth names. 1852 J. G. Whittier First-day Thoughts 7 There syllabled by silence, let me hear The still small voice which reached the prophet's ear. 1886 M. E. Braddon One Thing Needful v The first prayer those lips had ever syllabled. b. To read (something) syllable by syllable; to read in detail or with close attention; to spell out. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > read attentively or laboriously spella1400 studya1425 nit1596 finger1653 syllable1724 society > communication > writing > spelling > spell [verb (transitive)] > form a word with letters > syllable by syllable syllable1724 1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden p. xxxii This bruitish, carnal Age knows not what it is to syllable the Scriptures, or feed upon them. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ii. 35/1 These things were the Alphabet, whereby in after-time he was to syllable and partly read the grand Volume of the World. c. To represent by syllables. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > articulate or divide into syllables > represent by syllables syllable1887 1887 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 200/2 Loud notes [of a snipe] that have been syllabled tinker, tinker, tinker. 3. intransitive. To utter syllables, to speak.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 17 Turn'd—syllabling thus, ‘Ah, Lycius bright’. Derivatives ˈsyllabled adj. /-b(ə)ld/ ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > uttered in syllabicala1732 syllabled1843 syllabic1890 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvii. 176 Men had not a hammer to begin with, not a syllabled articulation. 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvii. 264 The tree-whispers sounded like a syllabled sympathy. 1885 J. H. Dell Dawning Grey, Songs of Surges 98 The songs of the surges I shaped to a syllabled sound. ˈsyllabling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > division into or utterance of syllabication1631 syllabling1819 syllabification1838 syllabation1856 syllabism1892 syllabization1926 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. 215 The three words drawn to the utmost extent of syllabling. 1876 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxxi. §2. 360 The painted syllabling of it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1384v.c1475
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