disyllabic

Also dis·syl·lab·ic

[dahy-si-lab-ik, dis-i-]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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First recorded in 1630–40; di- ¹ + syllabic

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The distinction is really one between monosyllabic and disyllabic roots.

The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.

These words agree in being disyllabic, but otherwise they are a tiresome and quarrelsome people.

What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!

It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.

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