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synaloepha

synaloepha is the alternative 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 synaloepha

pluralsynaloephas

Questions about synaloepha

What is synaloepha the alternative form of?
Synaloepha is the alternative form of synalepha.

Words near synaloepha in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synaloepha (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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