Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /syl̚laβí/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /syl̚laví/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /silaví/

Noun

συλλαβή • ‎(sullabḗ) f ‎(genitive συλλαβῆς); first declension

1. conception, pregnancy
2. that which holds together, i.e. a girdle
   1. that which is held together
   2. several letters combined, syllable
3. (music) the chord called the fourth

Inflection

References

• συλλαβή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «συλλαβή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • syllable idem, page 850.
• LSJ 7th edition

Greek

Noun

συλλαβή • ‎(syllaví) f ‎(plural συλλαβές)

1. (grammar, linguistics) syllable

Declension

See also

• λήγουσα f ‎(lígousa, “last syllable of a word”)
• παραλήγουσα f ‎(paralígousa, “penultimate syllable in word”)
• προπαραλήγουσα f ‎(proparalígousa, “antepenultimate syllable in word”)