συλλαβήν (syllaben)

συλλαβήν is an Ancient Greek form of συλλαβή, meaning “syllable”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 29.30: κἄμμες βαρδύτεροι τὰ ποτήμενα συλλάβην.

Plutarch, Theseus 26.5: … ἄνδρα τῶν Ἀθήνησιν εὐπατριδῶν· ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ τόπον Ἑρμοῦ καλεῖν οἰκίαν τοὺς Πυθοπολίτας, οὐκ ὀρθῶς τὴν δευτέραν συλλαβὴν περισπῶντας καὶ τὴν δόξαν ἐπὶ θεὸν ἀπὸ ἥρωος μετατιθέντας.

Plutarch, De Vitioso Pudore 10: … γὰρ εἰπών, ὅτι πάντες οἱ τὴν Ἀσίαν κατοικοῦντες ἑνὶ δουλεύουσιν ἀνθρώπῳ διὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι μίαν εἰπεῖν τὴν οὐ συλλαβήν, οὐκ ἐσπούδασεν ἀλλʼ ἔσκωψε· τοῖς δὲ δυσωπουμένοις, κἂν μηδὲν εἴπωσιν, ἔξεστιν ὀφρῦν ἐπάρασι μόνον ἢ κάτω κύψ …

All forms of συλλαβή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.