Synaphea
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Synaphea is a noun meaning (prosody) The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
Meaning
(prosody) The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
More Meanings
- (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.
- Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.
Word Forms
- synapheia
- synapheas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bicolon, synecphonesis, parechesis, synchesis, diacope, synizesis.
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