syn·a·le·pha also syn·a·loe·pha 
(sĭn′ə-lēfə)
(sĭn′ə-lēfə)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 the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]