trisyllabic

/ˌtɹaɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

noun

"[…] how many nonelitist Americans can, without undue difficulty, read as many as a thousand consecutive words of small print, some of which may be trisyllabic?"

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tréyes Proto-Indo-European *tri- Proto-Italic *tri- Latin tri-der. English tri- English syllabic English trisyllabic From tri- + syllabic.

trisyllabics (plural)

trisyllabically trisyllabicity

syllabic monosyllabic polysyllabic octosyllabic hendecasyllabic pentasyllabic

Questions

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The recorded pronunciation is /ˌtɹaɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/.

What does trisyllabic mean?

having three syllables

Where does trisyllabic come from?

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