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synalephaenUK
syn·a·le·pha also syn·a·loe·pha S0962500 (sĭn′ə-lē′fə)n. The blending into one syllable of two successive vowels of adjacent words, especially to fit a poetic meter; for example, th' elite for the elite.
[New Latin, from Greek sunaloiphē, from sunaleiphein, to coalesce, unite two syllables : sun-, syn- + aleiphein, to smear; see leip- in Indo-European roots.]synalepha (ˌsɪnəˈliːfə) or synaloephan (Linguistics) linguistics vowel elision, esp as it arises when one word ends in a vowel and the following word begins with one[C16: from Late Latin synaloepha, from Greek sunaliphē, from syn- + aleiphein to melt, smear]synaloepha, synalephathe contraction of two adjacent vowels into one syllable, as by elision.See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices |