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syllabic adjective
Meaning : Of or relating to syllables.
Example :
Syllabic accent.
Syllabic characters each represent a syllable.
Meaning : Consisting of or using a syllabary.
Example :
Eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing.
Meaning : (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities.
(of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables.
In typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements.quantitative
(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity.
Accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line.Accentual rhythm.
accentual
Meaning : Consisting of a syllable or syllables.
Not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable. Consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong).
The nonsyllabic `n' in `botany' when it is pronounced `botny'.The nonsyllabic `i' in `oi'.
nonsyllabic, unsyllabic
Meaning : (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable.
Example :
The syllabic `nl' in `riddle'.
(of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable.
Initial `l' in `little' is nonsyllabic.nonsyllabic
