imparisyllabicadj.n.
/ɪmˌparɪsɪˈlabɪk/ Grammar.
A. adj.
Applied to Greek and Latin nouns which have not the same number of syllables in all the cases: e.g. nominative ὀδούς, genitive ὀδόντος; nominative lapis, genitive lapidis.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Imparasyllabic,..having unequal Syllables. [So Ash, Craig, etc.]
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 175 We must have regard to the oblique cases, especially in nouns imparasyllabic.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 287 The imparisyllabic genitives of the third declension.
1813 S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 623 Markland's hypothesis upon the formation of the imparasyllabic genitive.
1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 261 Of the nouns, Eicon and Doron..the first belonged to an imparisyllabic declension..the second not so.
B. n.
An imparisyllabic noun.
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imparisyllabic1893
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1893 Athenæum 5 Aug. 189/2 The distinction of parisyllabics and imparisyllabics is barely indicated.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adjective] > with particular number of syllables
parisyllabic1656
parisyllabical1656
imparisyllabical1678
imparisyllabic1727
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Imparisyllabical, not consisting of a like number of syllables in every Case.
1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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