Lewis Short
synăloephē | -līphē | -loepha (noun F) = συναλοιφή,: (, )
* The contraction of two syllables into one, either by synaeresis or by crasis; in later gram. applied esp. to elision, = collisio, elisio,Quint. 9, 4, 109; Charis. p. 249 P.; Diom. p. 437 ib.; Mart. Cap. 3, § 267; Serv. Verg. A. 2, 16.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary