The final s is generally elided before a consonant when in the thesis of the foot, but often remains in the arsis (e.
Pollio is elided by Virgil, shortened by Horace (O.
S was rehabilitated in the literary dialect in the time of Cicero, who speaks of the omission to reckon it as subrusticum; but final M is always elided before a vowel.
Burnell, compilers of a standard dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms.
But even in the matter of elided consonants American is not always the conservator.
The vowel is elided in some cases, and coalesces with another vowel in others.
The apostrophe is not written for the elided a of an in the MSS.
We must here particularly note the article the, which is very often elided before a word beginning with a vowel or mute h.
This final e marks a variety of grammatical inflections, and is frequently either elided or very slightly sounded, and sometimes wholly suppressed in some common words.
In poetry the letter A of the article is occasionally elided before a word beginning with a vowel.
OU in prout is not a diphthong; the U is either elided or forms a distinct syllable.
In proin, proinde, the O is either elided or forms a distinct syllable.
Clearly we must not altogether pass over the elided vowel or syllable in m, except perhaps in the case of e* in common words, que, neque, and the like.
The only exceptions to this rule are, that, by poetical license the additional s may be elided in poetry for sake of the metre, and in the scriptural phrases "For goodness' sake.
Treitschke rewrote much of the libretto, and Beethoven made considerable changes in the music, restoring some of the pages that had been elided at the first overhauling.
Besides, e is only elided before h in the case of certain words.
If each of the two last syllables of a trisyllabic word has an unaccented e, one of them is generally elided or slurred over under the influence of the rhythmical accent.
It may lose its syllabic value altogether, its vowel being elided and its consonantal part (if it has any) being attracted to the root-syllable.
On the contrary, it sometimes can be brought into conformity with the regular scheme of the five-foot verse only by level stress and by assigning full value to syllables that in ordinary pronunciation are slurred or elided (see ยง 83).
If an inflexional -e is added to such words, so as to make them trisyllables, it is commonly elided or apocopated, e.
Diphthongs arising from Synizesis (2499) are sometimeselided in early Latin verse, but not in verse of the classical period.
Elision seldom occurs if the syllable to be elided is immediately preceded by a vowel: as in #de(am) et#.
Final syllables ending in a vowel, a diphthong, or -m are regularly elided before a word beginning with a vowel or h.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elided" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
