disyllable
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of disyllable
1580–90; di- 1 + syllable; compare Greek disýllabos of two syllables; variant dissyllable has ss < Middle French dissilabe
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The narrower range of cadence allowed by the rule which makes every couplet regularly end in a disyllable, involves a monotony which only Ovid's immense dexterity enabled him to overcome.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52, Fast V 118 & V 170, and Tr II 114.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
Perhaps the only disyllable is 'study'; the shortening of a stressed u shows its immediate derivation from the old French estudie.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by John Sargeaunt
The secret is, to draw out et into a disyllable, et-te, as the Italians do, who pronounce Latin verse, if possible, worse than we, adding a syllable to such as end with a consonant.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen Heroides ends in a disyllable.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
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