单词 | pentasyllable |
释义 | pentasyllablen. A word with five syllables. ΘΚΠ 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 1709 C. Place Adversaria 75 Let us see 1st. What that horrible and monstrous Pentasyllable[sc. the word ‘Persecution’] imports. 1816 Q. Rev. 15 369 It could not be done in less compass than a pentasyllable. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 14 I have counted fourteen quadrisyllables in 343 pentameters..one pentasyllable, imaginibus. 1927 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 42 524 Some hemistichs have been registered as pentasyllables instead of hexasyllables. 1997 French Rev. 70 457 Scott..convincingly demonstrates the importance of the pentasyllable and its constituent dissyllable and trisyllable to the poet's craft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1709 |
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