synaphea

Meanings

1. The metrical continuity between one colon and another.
2. Mutual connection of all the verses in a system, so that they are scanned as one verse, as in anapaestics.
3. Elision or synalepha, at the end of a line, of the final vowel of a dactylic hexameter before the initial vowel of the next.

1. Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to join together”).