Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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noun
Mutual connection of all the verses in a system, so that they are scanned as one verse, as in anapaestics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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noun
Elision or synalepha, at the end of a line, of the final vowel of a dactylic hexameter before the initial vowel of the next.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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noun
Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Ancient Greek συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to join together”).
From translingual Synaphea (“genus name”).
