synaphea
See also: Synaphea
English
editEtymology 1
editAncient Greek συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to join together”)
Alternative forms
editNoun
editsynaphea (uncountable)
- (prosody) The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
- (prosody) Mutual connection of all the verses in a system, so that they are scanned as one verse, as in anapaestics.
- (prosody) Elision or synalepha, at the end of a line, of the final vowel of a dactylic hexameter before the initial vowel of the next.
Etymology 2
edittranslingual Synaphea (“genus name”)
Noun
editsynaphea (plural synapheas)
- Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.