The story
- Latin · derived fromsyllabificō
- English todaysyllabification
First 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 4.0.