 | 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
...ä&Tfpuv (42 a), 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... | |
 | James Hadley - 1871 - Počet stránok 264
...(><>/' (42 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Johann Hermann Heinrich Schmidt - 1878 - Počet stránok 222
...the following are of importance in metric : I. The shortening of protracted vowels and of diphthongs at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel : II. " Synizesis " of final and beginning vowels : ir\a-/^O-if ea-el Tponjs, KTX This could... | |
 | Johann Hermann Heinrich Schmidt - 1879 - Počet stránok 220
...the following are of importance in metric : I. The shortening of protracted vowels and of diphthongs at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel : W "Av8pa fiiOL отeтгe, к. т. X. II. " Synizesis " of final and beginning vowels : /-\... | |
 | James Hadley - 1884 - Počet stránok 460
...¿ттИ oí, as two syllables; and so /iij oXXoi, eya ov. Elision. 79. Elision is the cutting off of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. The place 76 D. Crasis is rare in Hm. ; in Hd. it is not frequent. It is most extensively... | |
 | James Hadley - 1884 - Počet stránok 500
...eVei oí, as two syllables ; and so /*ij oXXot, ¿yà> où. Elision. 79. Elision is the cutting off of a short vowel at the end of a word when the next word begins with a vowel. The place 76 D. Crasis is rare in Hm. ; in lid. it is not frequent. It is most extensively... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - Počet stránok 968
...a sound to e ; the anomaly is now removed. § 8. The apottrophe (') points out the suppression of a vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel or h mute ; it promotes rapidity of utterance by destroying the hiatvt. lamitie, friendship,... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1887 - Počet stránok 226
...much oftener a dactyl than a spondee. IV. Hiatus. Hiatus is the non-elision of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel or diphthong. It is allowed in Homeric verse under the following conditions. I. After the vowel... | |
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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... 
