SYNALOEPHA, in Grammar, a contraction of syllables, performed principally by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, on account of another vowel or diphthong at the beginning of the next. As, ill' ego, for ille ego, &c.
Conticuer' omnes intentiqu' ora tenebant. VIRGIL.
It is called by the Latins collisio.