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synalepha

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek συναλοιφή (sunaloiphḗ, “a coalescing, confluence”) (< Ancient Greek συν- (sun-) + ἀλοιφή (aloiphḗ)).

noun synalephas · synalœpha · synaloepha

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

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noun melding of separate vowels into a single syllable

Españolsinalefa
Portuguêssinalefa
Françaissynalèphe
Italianosinalefe

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"synalepha." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/synalepha. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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synalepha. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/synalepha

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"synalepha." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/synalepha.

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@misc{synalepha_2026,
  title = {synalepha},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/synalepha},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}