Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To syllabify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form or divide into syllables; syllabicate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To syllabify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
syllabify .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb divide into syllables
- verb utter with distinct articulation of each syllable
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin syllabizāre, to quibble, from Greek sullabizein, to syllabify, from sullabē, syllable; see syllable.]
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