Antiquity(noun) the quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. Antiquity(noun) old age. Antiquity(noun) ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
Syllabic consonant. A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in the English words rhythm, button and bottle, or is the nucleus of a syllable, like the r sound in the American pronunciation of work.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word syllabus derives from modern Latin syllabus list, in turn from a misreading of the Greek ÏÎ¯ÏÏÏÎ²Î±Ï sittybas parchment label, table of contents, which first occurred in a 15th-century print of Cicero 's letters to Atticus.