单词 | synalœpha |
释义 | synalœphasynalœphen. Grammar. 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. 1699). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > unit of duration of speech sound > lengthening or shortening > contraction of two sounds into one synalœpha1540 synaeresis1577 elisiona1586 synizesis1846 haplology1893 1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Eiijv 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. 1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie sig. C7v The Synalæphas 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. 1685 J. Dryden Sylvæ Pref. sig. A5v [Ovid] avoids..all Synalœpha's, or cutting off one Vowel when it comes before another, in the following word. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle v. ii. 59 I'll cut off one of his Limbs, I'll make a Synelepha of him. 1741 J. Martyn tr. Virgil Georgics i. 4 (note) (1811) 2/1 Some editions have atque, between pecori and apibus, to avoid a synalœpha. 1827 J. Tate in J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) ii. iii. 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. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1202/1 The synalæpha is commonly..adopted in Italian and Spanish poetry. DerivativesΚΠ 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 302 Whatsoever he does well, is presently detracted from, till it be lessened and synalœpha'd [1677 synalœph'd] into nothing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1540 |
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