单词 | trisyllable |
释义 | trisyllablen.adj. A. n. A word, or a metrical foot, of three syllables. In quot. 1718, trisyllabic or ‘triple’ rhyme (nonce-use). 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 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 56 To euery bissillable they allowed two times, & to a trissillable three times, & to euery polisillable more, according to his quantitie. 1630 J. Taylor Cast over Water in Wks. ii. 158 When a tressillable a verse doth end, 'Tis harsh, 'tis paltry, and it doth offend. 1718 J. Swift To Sheridan 31 But now I find my Muse but ill able, To hold out longer in Trissyllable. a1771 T. Gray Poems Lydgate in Wks. (1814) II. 64 As to trissyllables, as their accent is very rarely on the last, they cannot properly be any rhymes at all. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) Pref. 6 The word ‘Gaius’ is a trisyllable in the classical period. 1887 A. S. Cook tr. E. Sievers Old Eng. Gram. (ed. 2) 133 [They] sometimes take u after the manner of the trisyllables. B. adj. = trisyllabic adj. (In quot. 18171, having trisyllabic or ‘triple’ rhymes.) ΘΚΠ 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 1766 R. Lowth Larger Confut. Bp. Hare 36 [Bentley] gives examples of trissyllable feet, namely, Bacchiac and Cretic feet, in English Verse. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 31 An innocent amusement from the riddles, conundrums, trisyllable lines, &c., &c., of Swift. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 178 Double and trisyllable rhymes, indeed, form a lower species of wit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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