Santa Barbara , LeonorGarrido Domené, FuensantaNogueira, Adriana2018-01-172018-01-1720170874-5498PURE: 3337249PURE UUID: 5031a23e-db14-429c-98b2-17b1a0939958WOS: 000404814000011Scopus: 85019207936ORCID: /0000-0001-6567-1700/work/69068278http://hdl.handle.net/10362/28471UID/HIS/04666/2013 online database: Arts and Humanities Citation Index – ISI Web of Knowledge; CIRC; DIALNET; DOAJ; ERIH PLUS; L’ ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE; LATINDEX; MIAR; QUALIS; REDALYC; SJRThis article seeks to examine the origin of the term ‘syllable’, which had several nuances in antiquity and was applied in different fields of expertise, and its connection with such apparently diverse areas as Music and Grammar. For that purpose, we provide a diachronic survey of the concept as it was used in ancient grammars, in some authors and in treatises pertaining to music, and in the most representative grammatical and lexicographic works written in Spanish from varied periods.231186282spaSyllableAncient grammarsMusicality in languageAncient musicjournal article