disyllabledissyllablen.adj.
/ˈdʌɪˌsɪləb(ə)l//dɪˈsɪləb(ə)l/ A. n.
A word, or metrical foot, consisting of two syllables.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > syllabic sound > syllable > word having specific number
bissyllable1589
disyllable1589
tetrasyllable1589
trisyllable1589
quadrisyllable1706
pentasyllable1709
quadrisyllabic1776
septisyllable1834
octosyllable1846
sexisyllable1855
disyllabic1934
paralog1951
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 88 For wordes monosillables..if they be tailed one to another, or th'one to a dissillable or polyssillable ye ought to allow them that time that best serues your purpose and pleaseth your eare most.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 416 Expressed..in Dyssyllables by repeating the second Radical Consonant after the last Vowel.
1874 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds 47 Dissyllables ending in a vowel..are almost always lengthened.
1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) ii. 167 The plural ‘aches’..appears as a disyllable in Shakspeare, Samuel Butler, and Swift.
1883 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. δισυλλαβέω..to use as a disyllable.
1889 R. Ellis Comm. Catullus p. xxvii In the short elegy to Hortulus the pentameter ends four times with a disyllable, four times with a trisyllable.
B. adj.
= disyllabic adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > syllable > consisting of > consisting of specific number
disyllabea1637
disyllabica1637
trisyllabica1637
quadrisyllable1656
tetrasyllabical1656
trisyllabical1656
quadrisyllabous1678
disyllable1749
tetrasyllable1749
trisyllable1766
pentasyllabica1771
tetrasyllabic1775
quadrisyllabic1827
sexisyllabic1875
quadrisyllabical1890
1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 17 They are compounded of two dissyllable Feet.
1795 L. Murray Eng. Gram. 148 Dissyllable nouns in er, as, ‘Cánker, bútter’, have the accent on the former syllable.
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