disyllabic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of disyllabic
Example Sentences
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The distinction is really one between monosyllabic and disyllabic roots.
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The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.
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These words agree in being disyllabic, but otherwise they are a tiresome and quarrelsome people.
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What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
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It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.
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