pentaphthong
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From penta- + -phthong, by analogy with diphthong, triphthong.
Noun
[edit]pentaphthong (plural pentaphthongs)
- (phonetics, rare) A sequence of five vowels pronounced as, or almost as, a single syllable.
- 1866, Caleb Bates Josselyn, Elements of Pronunciation […], page 53:
- Fifty-six diphthongal combinations may be made from the eight vowel elements, four of which, though, we find to be necessarily triphthongs, two tetraphthongs, and one a pentaphthong.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]sequence of five vowels pronounced as, or almost as, a single syllable