syllabication

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Pronunciation

/sɪˌlæbɪˈkeɪʃən/

Definition of syllabication

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noun

(countable, uncountable)The act of syllabifying; syllabification.

“I sweare unto thee by the crisse-crosse row, by the whole Alphabet, and Sillabication of the letters.”
“Instances both of the unemphatic do and of the distinct syllabication of the final ed are numerous in the present play.”

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First attested in 1631; from the Medieval Latin sillabicātio, syllabicātio, noun of action of the verb syllabicō, from syllaba (“syllable”).

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