Synalepha

[sɪnəlɪfə]

解釋/意思:

(n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army.

克利夫顿錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a contraction by suppressing a final vowel or diphthong before another vowel or diphthong so that the final syllable of one word runs or melts into the first of the other.—Also Synalē′phe.

編輯:罗伊