sillable

Old French

Alternative forms

silable
sillabe
sillebe
sylable

Etymology

First known attestation circa 1160[1], borrowed from Latin syllaba.

Noun

sillable f (oblique plural sillables, nominative singular sillable, nominative plural sillables)

syllable

References

“syllabe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sillable, supplement)

silable on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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