different between diphthong vs synaeresis

English

Alternative forms

• dipthong (obsolete)

Etymology

From French diphtongue, from Ancient Greek ????????? (díphthongos, “two sounds”), from ??? (dís, “twice”) + ??????? (phthóngos, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?f???(?)/; (proscribed) /?d?p???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?f???/; (proscribed) /?d?p???/
• (CA; US, in accents with the cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d?f???/; (proscribed) /?d?p???/

Noun

diphthong (plural diphthongs)

1. (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.

   Coordinate terms: monophthong, triphthong

2. (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
   • 1854, Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby, Woodfall and Kinder, page 47:

     And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.

   • 1860, Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language, A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers), page 12:

     An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in heat, oa in coal.

   • 1874, Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book, John Murray (publisher), page 3:

     The diphthong ae is sounded like ? (§7); that is, it has the sound of ey in they.

Derived terms

Related terms

• monophthong
• triphthong

Translations

See also

• glide
• ligature

Further reading

• diphthong on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• synæresis (dated)
• synairesis (uncommon)
• syneresis (American)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis, “unification”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ??????? (haíresis, “taking”), from ????? (hairé?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n????s?s/

Noun

synaeresis (countable and uncountable, plural synaereses)

1. (linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
2. (chemistry) the separating out of the liquid from a gel.

Hypernyms

• (linguistics, prosody): metaplasm

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoric.byu.edu)

Latin

Alternative forms

• synæresis, syn?resis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sunaíresis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sy?nae?.re.sis/, [s???näe???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si?ne.re.sis/, [si?n????s?is]

Noun

synaeresis f (genitive synaeresis or synaerese?s or synaeresios); third declension

1. synaeresis (contraction of two syllables into one)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:synaeresis.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Antonyms

• (synaeresis): diaeresis

References

• “synaeresis” on page 1,896/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)