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imparisyllabic, a. (n.) Gram.|-sɪˈlæbɪk|
(Also 8–9 erron. impara-.)
[f. L. impar unequal + syllabic: cf. parisyllabic.]
Applied to Greek and Latin nouns which have not the same number of syllables in all the cases: e.g. nom. ὀδούς, gen. ὀδόντος; nom. lapis, gen. lapidis.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Imparasyllabick. (So Ash, Craig, etc.) 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 175 We must have regard to the oblique cases, especially in nouns imparasyllabic. 1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 287 The imparisyllabic genitives of the third declension. 1813S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 623 Markland's hypothesis upon the formation of the imparasyllabic genitive. 1854De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 265 note, Of the nouns Eicon and Doron..the first belonged to an imparisyllabic declension,..the second not so.
B. as n. An imparisyllabic noun.
1893Athenæum 5 Aug. 189/2 The distinction of parisyllabics and imparisyllabics is barely indicated.
So † imparisyˈllabical a. Obs. rare—0.
1678Phillips (ed. 4), Imparisyllabical, not consisting of a like number of syllables in every Case. 1721in Bailey. |