disyllabic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of disyllabic
Example Sentences
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It must be admitted that the disyllabic words are not wholly constant to a principle.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John
What a structure of little monosyllabic and disyllabic forms is added to the verb and to the substantive, in the Coptic language!
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
These words agree in being disyllabic, but otherwise they are a tiresome and quarrelsome people.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John
The distinction is really one between monosyllabic and disyllabic roots.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
These words retain the suffix, which in early days was disyllabic, as it sometimes is in Shakespeare, for instance in Portia's Before a friend of this descripti�n Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John
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