Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a contraction of two syllables into one; syneresis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun grammar A
contraction of twosyllables into one;synizesis .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek, to utter together.
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Examples
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The pronunciation in these instances with the actual elision is less agreeable to my ear than by synecphonesis.
Miscellany 1784
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Perhaps a vowel should never suffer elision when it is followed by a vowel or where only an "h," a "w" or a liquid intervenes between that and a next vowel, or in other words there should never be an elision where synecphonesis may take place.
Miscellany 1784
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