syllaba Latin · revision 32734

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc συλλαβή}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsyl.la.ba]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsil.la.ba]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''syllaba''' ''f'' (genitive syllabae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sullaba''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|συλλαβή|tr=sullabḗ|t=syllable; a gathering together]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) Köbler connects the Greek noun with [[m|grc|συλλαμβάνω|tr=sullambánō|t=to gather together]] and [[m|grc|σύν|tr=sún|t=together]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short first quote Plautus, in the ''Bacchides''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a syllable: Cicero speaks of a syllable that is too short or too long and of the number of syllables, Horace of a long syllable placed after a short one, and Ovid of a first syllable that is short.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero calls a lawyer a syllable-catcher, a captious quibbler over words.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the plural Martial uses it of verses, saying that Verona loves the syllables of its learned poet.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives the sense vowel.^(Wiktionary) In medieval Latin the plural can mean a letter, an epistle.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|syllable]] (late 14th century) came through Anglo-French ⟨sillable⟩, an altered form of [[m|fro|silabe]], from the Latin word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of long and short syllables and of a quibbling lawyer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a long syllable after a short.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of a poet's verses.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''syllable''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|syllable]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''auceps syllabārum'', a quibbler over words.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|vowel]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' Verses, poems.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, plural)'' A [[m|en|letter]], epistle.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bisyllabus]]

+ * [[syllabātim]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|syllable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}