Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

syllabary

/ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables: syl-labary
IPA: /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

noun

A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.

Example Sentences

"It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants."
"Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-) Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂gʷ-der. Proto-Hellenic *hlagʷ- Ancient Greek λᾰμβᾰ́νω (lămbắnō) Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek -ή (-ḗ) Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ)der. Latin syllaba Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārium New Latin syllabāriumder. English syllabary From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

Word Breakdown

Root: syllabārium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/
British English: /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/

Inflected Forms

syllabaries (plural)

Derived Forms

alphasyllabary semisyllabary semisyllabic syllabaric

Phrases

Cypriot syllabary

Frequently Paired Words

syllable

Synonyms

syllabic script

Questions

How do you pronounce syllabary?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/.
What does syllabary mean?: A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
Where does syllabary come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-) Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂gʷ-der. Proto-Hellenic *hlagʷ- Ancient Greek λᾰμβᾰ́νω (lămbắnō) Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek -ή (-ḗ) Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ)der. Latin syllaba Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārium New Latin syllabāriumder. English syllabary From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

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