| ADJECTIVE | pert | syllabic | of or relating to syllables |
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| pert | syllabic | consisting of or using a syllabary | |
| all | syllabic | (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities | |
| all | syllabic | consisting of a syllable or syllables | |
| all | syllabic | (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable |
| Sounds | sahlae'bihk | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... | |
| Meaning | Of or relating to syllables. | |
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| Spanish | silábico | |
| Catalan | sil·làbic | |
| Nouns | syllabicity | the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language |
| syllable | a unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme | |
| Adverbs | syllabically | in or with syllables |
| Meaning | Consisting of or using a syllabary. | |
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| Example | "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing" | |
| Spanish | silábico | |
| Nouns | syllabary | a writing system whose characters represent syllables |
| Meaning | (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities. | |
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| Opposite | accentual | (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity |
| quantitative | (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables | |
| Spanish | silábico | |
| Meaning | Consisting of a syllable or syllables. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | decasyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables |
| disyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables | |
| monosyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable | |
| octosyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables | |
| pentasyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables | |
| polysyllabic | Having or characterized by words of more than three syllables | |
| syllabled | pronounced in syllables | |
| Opposite | nonsyllabic, unsyllabic | not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable |
| Spanish | silábico | |
| Catalan | sil·làbic | |
| Nouns | syllable | a unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme |
| Meaning | (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable. | |
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| Example | "the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'" | |
| Opposite | nonsyllabic | (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable |
| Spanish | silábico | |
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