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synalepha

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syn·a·le·pha also syn·a·loe·pha  (sn-lf)
n.
The blending into one syllable of two successive vowels of adjacent syllables, especially to fit a poetic meter; for example, th' elite for the elite.
[New Latin, from Greek sunaloiph, from sunaleiphein, to coalesce, unite two syllables : sun-, syn- + aleiphein, to smear; see leip- in Indo-European roots.]
synaloepha, synalepha
the contraction of two adjacent vowels into one syllable, as by elision.
See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices


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