different between syllable vs ultima

English

Alternative forms

• syllab (obsolete)
• syllabe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sullab?), from ?????????? (sullambán?, “I gather together”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ??????? (lambán?, “I take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?b?l/, [?s?l?b?]
• Hyphenation: syl?la?ble

Noun

syllable (plural syllables)

1. (linguistics) A unit of human speech that is interpreted by the listener as a single sound, although syllables usually consist of one or more vowel sounds, either alone or combined with the sound of one or more consonants; a word consists of one or more syllables.

   Meronyms: onset, nucleus, coda, rime
2. The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
3. A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
   • 1622, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, 60:

     Then let them cast backe their eies unto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the World, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Job, and the rest that lived before any syllable of the Law of God was written, did they not sinne as much as we doe in every action not commanded?

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth Act 5 Scene 1:

     Is the King's hand and tongue; and The Archbishop
     Is the King's hand and tongue; and who dare speak
     One syllable against him?

Derived terms

Related terms

• syllabus

Translations

Verb

syllable (third-person singular simple present syllables, present participle syllabling, simple past and past participle syllabled)

1. (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
   • 1645, John Milton, “A Mask Presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634. etc.” [Comus] in Poems, 84:

     Begin to throng A thousand fantasies
     Begin to throng into my memory
     Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire,
     And airy tongues, that syllable mens names
     On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.

Translations

Further reading

• syllable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

Noun

ultima (countable and uncountable, plural ultimas)

1. (grammar, prosody, countable) The final syllable of a word.
2. (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.

Synonyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): DvommaDvol

Hypernyms

• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)

Coordinate terms

(names of syllables): ultima, ult (last); penultima, penultimate, penult (last but one); antepenultima, antepenultime, antepenultimate, antepenult (last but two); preantepenultima (præantepenultima), preantepenultimate, preantepenult (last but three); propreantepenultimate, propreantepenult (last but four)

Translations

Anagrams

• Iatmul, Latium, mulita

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin

Noun

ultima

1. (prosody) ultima (last syllable in a multisyllable word)

Declension

Anagrams

• Multia, muilta

Italian

Adjective

ultima f sg

1. feminine singular of ultimo

Noun

ultima f (plural ultime)

1. female equivalent of ultimo

Verb

ultima

1. third-person singular present indicative of ultimare
2. second-person singular imperative of ultimare

Anagrams

• multai, mutila, umiltà

Ladin

Adjective

ultima

1. feminine singular of ultim

Latin

Adjective

ultima

1. nominative feminine singular of ultimus
2. nominative neuter plural of ultimus
3. accusative neuter plural of ultimus
4. vocative feminine singular of ultimus
5. vocative neuter plural of ultimus

Adjective

ultim?

1. ablative feminine singular of ultimus

Anagrams

• Latium

Portuguese

Verb

ultima

1. third-person singular present indicative of ultimar
2. second-person singular imperative of ultimar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ul.ti.ma]

Adjective

ultima

1. definite nominative feminine singular of ultim
2. definite accusative feminine singular of ultim

Spanish

Verb

ultima

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ultimar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of ultimar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ultimar.