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A synalepha or synaloepha 〔Greek συναλοιφή (or ), from : συν- "together" and "I anoint", "smear". 〕 is the merging of two syllables into one, especially when it causes two words to be pronounced as one. The original meaning in Ancient Greek is more general than modern usage, and also includes coalescence of vowels within a word. Similarly, synalepha most often refers to elision (as in English contraction), but it can also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis, synaeresis, or crasis.〔W. Sidney Allen, ''Vox Graeca'', chart of "Types of vowel-junction", p. 98.〕 ==Examples== Spanish and Italian use synalepha very frequently in poetry. As for instance in this hendecasyllable (11-syllable line) by Garcilaso de la Vega: *''Los cabellos que al oro oscurecían. * "The hair that endarkened the gold" The words ''que'' and ''al'' form one syllable when counting them because of the synalepha. The same thing happens with ''-ro'' and ''os-'', so that the line has eleven syllables (syllable boundaries shown by a period): * ''.Los.ca.be.llos.quea.lo.roos.cu.re.cí.an.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Synalepha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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