 | Peter Bullions - 1846 - Počet stránok 354
...of Prosody, and are as follows: FIGURES OF PROSODY. 1. Synaloepha, cuts offa vowel or diphthong from the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel, or h with a vowel following it, thus converting two syllables into one ; as, Terra antiqua by Synaloepha,... | |
 | Patrick S. Casserly - 1847 - Počet stránok 168
...DIRECTIONS FOR SCANNING. A vowel, or a diphthong, or a syllable composed of a vowel and M, is cut off from, the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel. This is called Elision. Thus, Quidve moror? si omnes uno ordine habetis Achivos. Vir. Gentis luleae,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1850 - Počet stránok 358
...Prosody, and are as follows: FIGURES OF PROSODY. 1. Synaloepha, cuts off a vowel fir diphthong from the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel, or h with a vowel following it, thus converting two syllables in-to one; as, Terra antlqua by Synaloepha,... | |
 | Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles - 1854 - Počet stránok 366
...verse its place is fixed. § 244. 1. The Epic and Lyric Poets often shorten a long vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel ; in which case a diphthong is shortened by simply dropping its last vowel ; but а, д, ш, respectively... | |
 | Peter Bullions - 1854 - Počet stránok 370
...mant ip- | si sib! | somm;'ij fingunt ID. 2. JZcthlipsis cuts off m with a vowel preceding it, from the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel, or h followed by a vowel ; as, Monstrum horrendum, inform e, ingens, cui lumen ademptum. Scanned thus,... | |
 | John Longmiur - 1864 - Počet stránok 744
...E-LLM-I-NATION , n. The act of expelling or causing to disappear. E-LIS'ION (-llzh'un), n. Cutting off a vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a E-L1TE' (a-lfte'J. «• [*Y] A select body of persons ; the flower of an army. 3-LlX'IE, n. A compound... | |
 | James Hadley - 1869 - Počet stránok 264
...аатерои (f. то ¡rtpov, той cripou). Elision. 40. Elision is the omission of a short vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel. The place of the omitted vowel is marked by au apostrophe [ ' ]. Thus i\\' (u6¿i (for алла íiflús)... | |
 | James Hadley - 1871 - Počet stránok 264
...a), äaTfpov (f. тЬ t-rtpov, той ETtpiin). Elision. 40. Elision is the omission of a short vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel. The place of the omitted vowel is marked by an apostrophe [']. Thus ОЛЛ' euflúv (for аЛЛа f... | |
 | William Watson Goodwin - 1873 - Počet stránok 276
...¡íé\\oi. NOTE. In tho Homeric verse and in Lyric poetry, a long vowel or a diphthong is often shortened at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. E. g. *Q 7ró¡roi, I 17 fiaXa j 8ij p.erc\ßov)(.ev\(rav 6fO\ \ ЛЛЛслу. ХрОоч'ш à\và... | |
 | Henry M. Bruns - 1873 - Počet stránok 240
...are long. 59. What is the rule for m in the end of words? M with the foregoing vowel is cut off from the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel ; otherwise the syllable is short; as, milii&m oeto in prose, but milit' octo in poetry. (See 98.)... | |
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Hurl'd often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but lull retains it in writing like the Latins. 
