Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To form or divide into syllables.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To syllabicate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To form or divide into syllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To divide a
word intosyllables ; tosyllabicate ; tosyllabize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divide into syllables
Etymologies
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First attested in 1799–1802; back-formation from syllabification; compare the Old French sillabifier.
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Examples
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It proves that this was so since there are only so many ways in which a word may syllabify according to the basic principle of sonority hierarchy, an important concept in phonetics.
Oddly formed locatives with inessive postclitic in Etruscan 2009
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Hmmm, that doesn't sound right to me since phonotactic restrictions would cause the nasal to syllabify before the laryngeal and then it would be pronounced **m̥h₂ḱros, no?
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