trisyllable
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of trisyllable
1580–90; tri- + syllable, modeled on Greek trisýllabos having three syllables
Example Sentences
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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
The name is not Iroquois—yet it may be, too—a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.
From The Reckoning by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
Dr. Hall has also shown that scientist, which Mr. A. J. Ellis saw fit to denounce as an "American barbaric trisyllable," was first used by an Englishman, Dr. Whewell, in 1840.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander
Shakespeare frankly writes the word as a trisyllable, Thy ignomy sleep with thee in the grave.
From Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin by Sargeaunt, John
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