| Figure Name | synaloepha |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Isidore 1.35.5-6; Mosellanus ("synaloephe" "Deletio") a3v; Susenbrotus (1540) 22; Sherry (1550) 28 ("synolephe," "delecio"); Peacham (1577) E3r; JG Smith (1665) ("synalaepha"); Holmes (1806) ("synaloepha," "synalaepha") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | synalepha, synaloephe, synolephe, episynaloepha, deletio, delecio, synalaepha |
| Etymology | from Gk. synaleiphein, "to smear or melt together" |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Orthographic Phonological |
| Definition |
1. Omitting one of two vowels which occur together at the end of one word and the beginning of another. A contraction of neighboring syllables. A kind of metaplasm. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. A mingling together: a figure of Prosodia, whereby two vowels are gathered into one syllable, &c.; Synaloepha, [synaloiphe] Commixtio, a mingling together. It is a gathering of two vowels into one syllable: or a Collision or dashing together of a vowel before another in divers words.(JG Smith) 3. By Synaloepha final vowels give way, That those in front of following words may stay. (Holmes) |
| Example |
1. I'll take one; you take th'other. 3. Si vis anim' esse beatus, for Si vis animo esse beatus. (Holmes) |
| Kind Of | Omission |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | metaplasm,figures of omission, syncope, ecthlipsis |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Nayoung Hong |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |