Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To syllabify.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To form or divide into syllables; syllabicate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To syllabify.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To syllabify.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb divide into syllables
  • verb utter with distinct articulation of each syllable

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin syllabizāre, to quibble, from Greek sullabizein, to syllabify, from sullabē, syllable; see syllable.]

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