Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - syllable
Syllable
syllable
n. & v. --n. 1 a unit of pronunciation uttered without interruption, forming the whole or a part of a word and usu. having one vowel sound often with a consonant or consonants before or after: there are two syllables in water and three in inferno. 2 a character or characters representing a syllable. 3 (usu. with neg.) the least amount of speech or writing (did not utter a syllable). --v.tr. pronounce by syllables; articulate distinctly. Phrases and idioms in words of one syllable expressed plainly or bluntly. Derivatives syllabled adj. (also in comb.). Etymology: ME f. AF sillable f. OF sillabe f. L syllaba f. Gk sullabe (as SYN-, lambano take)
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I. noun see: latch Date: 14th century a unit of spoken language that is next bigger than a speech sound and consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or of a syllabic consonant alone or of either with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following, one or more letters (as syl, la, and ble) in a word (as syllable) usually set off from the rest of the word by a centered dot or a hyphen and roughly corresponding to the ~s of spoken language and treated as helps to pronunciation or as guides to placing hyphens at the end of a line, the smallest conceivable expression or unit of something ; jot, sol-fa ~s, II. transitive verb (~d; syllabling) Date: 15th century to give a number or arrangement of ~s to (a word or verse), to express or utter in or as if in ~s ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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