资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synalepha \Syn`a*le"pha\, n. [NL., fr. L. synaloepha, Gr. ?,
   from ? to melt together; sy`n with + ? to besmear.] (Gram.)
   A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or
   diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or
   diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also
   {synal[oe]pha}.]