syllabic
Syllables: syl·lab·ic/sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
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Australia/sɪˈlɑːbɪk/
syllabic adjective: of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
Adjective
syllabic (comparative more syllabic, superlative most syllabic)
- Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270
- Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
- 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].
- 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.
Noun
syllabic (plural syllabics)
- A syllabic sound.
syllabic meaning in Malayalam, Malay and Indonesian
syllabic in Malayalam
- ഏകസ്വര വ്യഞ്ജനങ്ങളടങ്ങിയ
syllabic in Malay
- of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable
- suku kata, silabik
- in linguistics
- suku kata, silabik
syllabic in Indonesian
- of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable
- silabis
Forms of syllabic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more syllabic |
| superlative | most syllabic |
| Noun | |
| plural | syllabics |
Origin of syllabic
From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Words formed from syllabic
- accentual-syllabic
- alphasyllabic
- ambisyllabic
- anisosyllabic
- anisosyllabism
- asyllabic
- bisyllabic
- brachysyllabic
- decasyllabic
- dissyllabic
- disyllabic
- dodecasyllabic
- duodecasyllabic
- duosyllabic
- endecasyllabic
- extrasyllabic
- graphosyllabic
- hendecasyllabic
- heptasyllabic
- heterosyllabic
- hexasyllabic
- imparisyllabic
- infrasyllabic
- intersyllabic
- intrasyllabic
- isosyllabic
- isosyllabicity
- isosyllabism
- logosyllabic
- monosyllabic
- monosyllabicity
- morphosyllabic
- multisyllabic
- nonasyllabic
- nonpolysyllabic
- nonsyllabic
- non-syllabic
- octasyllabic
- octosyllabic
- oligosyllabic
- parasyllabic
- parisyllabic
- pentasyllabic
- plurisyllabic
- polysyllabic
- presyllabic
- protosyllabic
- quadrisyllabic
- quindecasyllabic
- quinquesyllabic
- semantosyllabic
- semisyllabic
- septasyllabic
- sesquisyllabic
- sexasyllabic
- sexisyllabic
- subsyllabic
- suprasyllabic
- syllabic abbreviation
- syllabical
Phrases with syllabic
Words that rhyme with syllabic
Questions about syllabic
- What does syllabic mean?
- Syllabic means of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
- What is syllabic in Malayalam?
- Syllabic in Malayalam is ഏകസ്വര വ്യഞ്ജനങ്ങളടങ്ങിയ. See Syllabic meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is syllabic?
- Syllabic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce syllabic?
- Syllabic is pronounced /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ (UK).
Words near syllabic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: syllabic (page history and authors); syllabic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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