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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It gives no them direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister
When introduced early in the 18th century it was as a trisyllable co-co-a, a mispronunciation of cacao or cocoa, the Spanish adaptation from the Mexican cacauatl.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
It gives them no direct advantage over the clod who stumbles against a trisyllable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
Sappho dissolves the word ὦον into a trisyllable, making it ὤïον, when she says— They say that formerly Leda found an egg.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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