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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

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (suníz?sis, “a sitting together”).

Noun

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

1. (poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.
2. (prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
3. (medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
4. (biology) Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

Translations

See also

• crasis

Further reading

• Synizesis (linguistic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Synizesis (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia