trisyllable
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of trisyllable
1580–90; tri- + syllable, modeled on Greek trisýllabos having three syllables
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For he insists on making ‘tuberose’ a trisyllable always, as if it were a potato blossom and not a flower shaped like a tiny trumpet of ivory.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
The name is not Iroquois—yet it may be, too—a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Pennyloaf's legal name was Penelope, which, being pronounced as a trisyllable, transformed itself by further corruption into a sound at all events conveying some meaning.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
Alas! tuberose is a trisyllable if properly derived from the Latin tuberosus, the lumpy flower, having nothing to do with roses or with trumpets of ivory in name any more than in nature.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
He seems," says Dennis, "to have been the very original of our English tragical harmony, that is, the harmony of blank verse, diversified often by dissyllable and trisyllable terminations.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
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