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noun forming or dividing words into syllables
originFirst attested in 1764; a regular Anglicisation (see -fication) of a hypothetical etymon of the form *syllabificātiō, *syllabificātiōn-, formed regularly on the base of the Latin syllabificō, itself from syllaba (“syllable”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0