polysyllable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

A word with more than two syllables. Sometimes used in a more restricted sense.

"For instance, words can differ in length, and we can rhyme a monosyllable with a polysyllable, like tracks with haversacks."
"In the Phyengan dialect, wuy developed into wi but at the end of a polysyllable it often dropped the -y to become wu (ibid): Tang-nakwu = Tang-nakwi 'donkey'"
"The third syllable of provided is ed, and therefore the verb is not a polysyllable."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English syllable English polysyllable From poly- + syllable.

polysyllables (plural)

polysyllabic polysyllabicism polysyllabicity polysyllabism monosyllable multisyllable

polysyllabic word

Questions

What does polysyllable mean?

A word with more than two syllables. Sometimes used in a more restricted sense.

Where does polysyllable come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English syllable English polysyllable From poly- + syllable.

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