| not forming a syllable or the nucleus of a syllable; consisting of a consonant sound accompanied in the same syllable by a vowel sound or consisting of a vowel sound dominated by other vowel sounds in a syllable (as the second vowel in a falling diphthong) | consisting of a syllable or syllables |
| (of speech sounds) not forming or capable of forming the nucleus of a syllable | (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities |
| | (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable |
| | consisting of or using a syllabary |
| | of or relating to syllables |