syllabic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: syl=lab=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

syllabic, a. [Gr. : cf. F. syllabique.].

•  Of or pertaining to a syllable or syllables; as, syllabic accent.  [1913 Webster]
•  Consisting of a syllable or syllables; as, a syllabic augment.  Earle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

syllabic, adj.
1 of, relating to, or based on syllables.
2 Prosody based on the number of syllables.
3 (of a symbol) representing a whole syllable.
4 articulated in syllables.

Derivative

syllabically adv. syllabicity n.

Etymology

F syllabique or LL syllabicus f. Gk sullabikos (as SYLLABLE)

THESAURUS

syllabic

accented, alphabetic character, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, cipher, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, device, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, graph, grapheme, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, letter, lexigraphic character, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monogram, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, phonic, pictographic character, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, sign, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, symbol, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide, writing, written character

ROGET THESAURUS

syllabic

Letter

N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.