Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these...

up contraction or contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contraction may refer to: Contraction (grammar), a shortened word Poetic contraction, omission...

A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds...

as Lugeto Veneres Cupidinesque (audio). There are many examples of poetic contraction in English verse of past centuries marked by spelling and punctuation...

Elision Epenthesis, the addition of sounds to the interior of a word Poetic contraction Synaeresis Synalepha Syncopation in music Vowel reduction Wells, John...

occasionally used to represent the sound /uː/ in words like fûr, a poetic contraction of furono (they were). Û is used in Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet in the...

occasionally used to represent the sound /aː/ in words like amâr, a poetic contraction of amarono (they loved). Â is used in the UNGEGN romanization system...

divine mouth!") from the song "Silent Night". The subject is Lieb, a poetic contraction of die Liebe leaving off the final -e and the definite article, so...

E'EN – contraction of "even" E'ER – poetic contraction of "ever" ERE – poetic synonym of "before" ERIN – poetic name for Ireland O'ER – contraction of "over"...

form. Alternatively, the form above may have been an instance of poetic contraction to limit the number of morae on the line to the expected seven. Additionally...

along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table. Contractions are only shown if their orthography is distinctive. There are also numerous...

and Paul Taylor. Graham technique is based on the opposition between contraction and release, a concept based on the breathing cycle which has become...

form contractions with the definite article. 1 Contractions with para are colloquial only, those with com are colloquial or poetic. The contractions with...

single syllable. In poetry, the vowel contraction would often be necessitated by the metrical requirements of the poetic form. Synizesis is also understood...

basis of French and Italian models. It is used in several major English poetic forms, including blank verse, the heroic couplet, and some of the traditionally...

of the Arabic alphabet Vè, a Vietnamese poetic form Ve, a proposed gender-neutral pronoun ve, a contraction of the English auxiliary verb "have" Venda...

Canadian ice hockey player Directory information tree dit (unit), a contraction for "decimal digit" "." or dot, the shorter of the two symbols used in...

(pronunciation of two vowels as one without a change in spelling), or contractions such as αει->ᾷ. The first of the two vowels may be converted to a glide...

Dante's The Divine Comedy, which comprises Lower Hell. The name Dis is a contraction of the Latin adjective dives ('wealthy, rich'), probably derived from...

hugely influential in both Chinese and Japanese literary culture. Of his poetic writing, nearly fifteen hundred poems have been preserved over the ages...

Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, revised edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1979), p. 115. Paul Fussell, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, revised...

of endearment when addressing his sweetheart, the term "ne'" being a contraction of "nenna", and meaning "baby girl", or "young girl" (Del Bosco 2006...

The suffix -ly in English is usually a contraction of -like, similar to the Anglo-Saxon -lice and German -lich. It is commonly added to an adjective to...

fish', which is a contraction of the Greek adjective νεαρός, nearós 'new, fresh, young'. It is commonly believed that the contraction of νεαρός to νηρός...

poetry and prose. The works of Homer and Hesiod are among the most popular poetic works that were written in a literary form of the Ionic dialect, known as...

As pointed out by H. Weir Smith, Δίκα ("Justice") can be read as a contraction of Δι(ὸς) κ(όρ)α, "daughter of Zeus". Metaphorically, κόρη and its variants...

"god-entertainment") is a type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance. The term is a contraction of the phrase kami no kura ("seat of god"), indicating the presence of...

it should be done. However, the phrase "pay the piper" may also be a contraction of the English proverb "he who pays the piper calls the tune." This proverb...

Hebrew in exchange for lessons in Dutch. Despite developing a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition, Milton suffered from alienation among his peers...

to act, to make" Attic θάλαττα → Ionic θάλασσα "sea" The vernacular and poetic dialect of Aristophanes. The dialect of Thucydides (mixed Old Attic with...