trisyllable
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Origin of trisyllable
1580–90; tri- + syllable, modeled on Greek trisýllabos having three syllables
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It gives no them direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
From Gala-days by Hamilton, Gail
I insist, he fancifully says, ‘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 Wilde, Oscar
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 Johnson, Samuel
My name is not so short: ’Tis a trisyllable, an’t please your worship; But vulgar tongues have made bold to profane it With the short sound of that unhallowed idol They call a kit.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.
Caesar's speech:— She dreamt last night, she saw my statue— No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced 'heroes' as a trisyllable than dissyllable.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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