noun
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A syllabic sound.
adjective
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Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
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Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
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Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
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Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
Examples of syllabic in a Sentence
Cambodian writing is syllabic and complicated.
The Haiku is restricted to three lines in a maximum syllabic pattern of 5-7-5, frequently divided by a caesura.
In the second part, Gunn writes in syllabic verse; the last piece in the collection is the title poem.
The first five names are Greek and a further fifty-five names are in Cypriote syllabic script.
They are Japanese in origin, with a strict syllabic structure.
Syllabic systems developed at the periphery of major civilizations, or where two civilizations meet.
Also, as a rest from rhyme I enjoy syllabic forms like haiku and tanka.
Individuals mentally chant a personalized mantra, made up of syllabic sounds, to promote increased relaxation and pure consciousness.
Malay is essentially, with few exceptions, a dissyllabic language, and the syllabic accent rests on the penultimate unless that syllable is open and short; e.g.
Thus, HroXucuoi is spelt Ptwrmys, Antoninus, Ntnynws or Intnyns, &c. &c. Much earlier, throughout the New Kingdom, a special syllabic orthography, in which the alphabetic signs for the consonants are generally replaced by groups or single signs having the value of a consonant followed by a semi-vowel, was used for foreign names and words, e.g.
Halting just short of this analysis, the Assyrian ascribed syllabic values to the characters of his script, and hence, instead of finding twenty odd characters sufficient, he required about five hundred.
Previous to Professor Friedrich Delitzsch's masterly work on the origin of the most ancient Babylonian system of writing,' no one had correctly understood the facts regarding the beginnings of the cuneiform system, which is now generally recognized as having been originally a pure picture writing which later developed into a conventionalized ideographic and syllabic sign-list.
But rhyme was not attempted, and the syllabic metre of Japan was preserved, the alternation of 5 and 7 being, however, dispensed with.
In the spelling Mar-tu, the name is as old as the first Babylonian dynasty, but from the 15th century B.C. and downwards its syllabic equivalent Amurru is applied primarily to the land extending northwards of Palestine as far as Kadesh on the Orontes.
All are written in a peculiar syllabic script which, un like all other Semitic forms, runs from left to right, and is derived from that of the Sabaeans and Minaeans, still extant in the very old rock-inscriptions of south Arabia.
In the middle of words when t precedes a palatal sound like i (y) which is not syllabic, it coalesces with it into the sound of sh as in position, nation, &c. The change to a sibilant in these cases took place in late Latin, but in Middle English the i following the t was still pronounced as a separate syllable.