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| syn·a·le·pha [ sìnnə lfə ] or syn·a·loe·pha [ sìnnə lfə ] |
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reduction to one syllable: the blending of two adjacent vowels into one, e.g. when a word ending in a vowel is immediately followed by a word beginning with a vowel
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| [Mid-16th century. Via late Latin< Greek sunaloiphē< sunaleiphein "smear together" < aleiphein "to smear"] |
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