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synalœpha

synalœpha is the obsolete form of synalepha.

Meaning of synalepha

Noun

synalepha (countable and uncountable, plural synalephas)

  1. (rhetoric) The suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.
  2. (rhetoric) The melding into a single syllable of two vowels from two different syllables.

Forms of synalœpha

pluralsynalœphas

Questions about synalœpha

What is synalœpha the obsolete form of?
Synalœpha is the obsolete form of synalepha.

Words near synalœpha in the dictionary

  1. synallagmatic
  2. synallagmatically
  3. synallaxine
  4. synaloepha
  5. synaloephas
  6. synalœpha
  7. synalœphas
  8. synamphoteron
  9. synamphoterons
  10. synanagram
  11. synanagrammatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synalœpha (page history and authors); synalepha (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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