{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "\u02c8s\u026al\u0259b\u0259l" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/syllable.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/syllable.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03ae (sullab\u1e17), from \u03c3\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03c9 (sullamb\u00e1n\u014d, \u201cI gather together\u201d), from \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd- (sun-, \u201ctogether\u201d) + \u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03c9 (lamb\u00e1n\u014d, \u201cI take\u201d)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.\nMeronyms: onset, nucleus, coda, rime\n2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, \u2192ISBN, page 543:I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable\u2014vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth." }, { "mean": "The written representation of a given pronounced syllable." }, { "mean": "A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.\n1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, page 60:Then let them cast backe their eies unto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the World, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the Law of God was written, did they not sinne as much as we doe in every action not commanded?\n1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; , \u201cThe Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight\u201d, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :Is the King's hand and tongue; and The ArchbishopIs the King's hand and tongue; and who dare speakOne syllable against him?" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.\n1634 October 9 (first performance), , H Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:\u00a0 , London: for Hvmphrey Robinson,\u00a0, published 1637, \u2192OCLC; reprinted as Comus:\u00a0 (Dodd, Mead & Company\u2019s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, \u2192OCLC:Begin to throng A thousand fantasiesBegin to throng into my memoryOf calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire,And airy tongues, that syllable mens namesOn Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.read onlin" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "syllable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=syllableoldid=73508058\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms derived from Proto-Indo-EuropeanEnglish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-English terms inherited from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Middle EnglishEnglish terms derived from Anglo-NormanEnglish terms derived from Old FrenchEnglish terms derived from LatinEnglish terms derived from Ancient GreekEnglish 3-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksEnglish lemmasEnglish nounsEnglish countable nounsen:LinguisticsEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish verbsEnglish transitive verbsEnglish poetic termsHidden categories: Terms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/cmn\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\tSearch\n\t\n\t\t
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