octosyllabic

/ˌɔk.təʉ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

noun

"If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]"

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Hellenic *oktṓ Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ)bor. Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw Proto-Italic *oktō Latin octōbor. English octo- English syllabic English octosyllabic From octo- + syllabic.

octasyllabic (alternative) octosyllabics (plural)

octosyllable

syllabic monosyllabic polysyllabic trisyllabic hendecasyllabic pentasyllabic

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The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɔk.təʉ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/.

What does octosyllabic mean?

Containing eight syllables

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