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syllabic
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syllabic
adj.
of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables, consisting of syllables; forming a syllable; of or pertaining to a style of poetry based on the number of syllables in a line
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Syllabic
Syllabic may refer to:
- Syllable
- Syllabic consonant, a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable
- Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables
- Abugida, writing system using symbols for consonant-vowel combinations (used to be called syllabic in the 19th century and syllabic alphabet by Coulmas)
- Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages.
- Syllabic verse, poetry that has a certain number of syllables per line
- Syllabic text setting, in music
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syllabic
Adjective
1. of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable"
(pertainym) syllable
2. consisting of or using a syllabary or syllabic characters; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing"
(pertainym) syllabary, syllabic script
3. (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities
(antonym) accentual
(similar) decasyllabic
4. consisting of a syllable or syllables; constituting a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound not accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominating the other vowel sounds in a syllable (as being the first vowel in a falling diphthong); "the syllabic `l' in `riddle' or the syllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `bot-n-y'"; "the syllabic `o' in `oi'"
(antonym) nonsyllabic, unsyllabic
(similar) disyllabic
5. of liquids and nasals
(synonym) vocalic
(classification) phonology, phonemics
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Syllabic
(a.)
Alt. of Syllabical
Alt. of Syllabical
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syllabic
Synonyms and related words:
accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph, grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter, lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic, pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing, written character
accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph, grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter, lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic, pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing, written character
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