syllabe

From French syllabe.

syllabe (plural syllabes)

1. Obsolete form of syllable.
   • 1838, Barry Cornwall, The Works of Ben Jonson with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, London, p.776 (The English Grammar, Chap. VI):

     A Syllabe is a part of a word that may of itself make a perfect sound; and is sometimes of one only letter, which is always a vowel; sometimes of more.

• Balsley, blasely, blasély

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syllabe f (plural syllablen or syllables)

1. syllable

• lettergreep

• eindsyllabe, slotsyllabe
• voorsyllabe

• → Indonesian: silabel

Borrowed from Latin syllaba.

• IPA^(key): /si.lab/, /sil.lab/

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• Rhymes: -ab

syllabe f (plural syllabes)

1. syllable

• “syllabe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsyl.la.bɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsil.la.be]

syllabe

1. vocative singular of syllabus

From Latin syllaba.

syllabe f (plural syllabes)

1. (Jersey, linguistics) syllable