different between vowel vs synaeresis

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vou??l, IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

Antonyms

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Derived terms

Related terms

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

See also

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

Translations

Verb

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

Translations

Synonyms

• vowelize
• vocalize

Anagrams

• wolve

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)