syllabize

t. [Mid. Eng. syllab(e) = syllable; Eng. suff. -ize.] To articulate; to divide into syllables. "Language frame and syllabize the tone." Howell: Parly of Beasts. (Pref.) syl-la-ble, *sil-la-ble, subst . [O. Fr. sillabe , syllabe , syllable , from Lat. syllaba ; Gr. syllabe = that which holds together a syllable: syl, for syn =with, and lambano to take, to seize; Sp. silaba ; Port. and Ital. sillaba .] 1. A sound, or a combination of sounds uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word. A syllable may consist of a single vowel, as a in alas , e in ever , ,; or of a vowel and a consonant, as in go , do , to , at , .; or of a combination of consonants with a vowel or diphthong, as strong , out , arm, strands, . In English the consonants land n sometimes form syllables, as in able , fuble , prison , reckon , ., where the final syllables are really and n. A word is named according to the number of syllables contained in it; thus, a word of one syllable is a monosyllable ; of two, a di yllable ; of many syllables, a polysyllable . 2. In printing and writing , a section or part of a word divided from the rest, and capable of being pronounced at one impulse of the voice. It may, spoken language. or may not, correspond with the syllable of the 3. The least expre ion or particle of language or statement. thought; as, There is not a syllable of truth in the syl-la-ble, v. t. [SYLLABLE, 8.] To utter; to articulate. "Airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores, and desert wilderne es." Milton: Comus , 208. syl-la-bŭb, s . [SYLLABUB.]