Trissyllable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Trissyllable is a noun meaning Alternative form of trisyllable.
Meaning
Alternative form of trisyllable.
Example Sentences
Which when ſubſcrib’d writes Legion, names on Truſs, / Abaddon, Belzebub, and Incubus, / All the Vice-Royes of darkneſs, every ſpell / And Fiend wrap’d in a ſhort Triſſyllable.
The Greeks have nowhere, as we have seen, complained of any difficulty in associating their dissyllables, alpha, beta, gamma, delta; and trissyllables, omicron and omega, with the elements of sound to which they refer.
In reading dissyllables, trissyllables, &c. it will be easy for teachers to make their scholars understand, that instead of the division, they should substitute the simple or articulated sound which is represented by the letters that are annexed to it, and read the word all together: and that these divisions are inserted only for the sake of facilitating the syllabisation, if I may be allowed the expression.
Word Forms
- trissyllables
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dissyllable, hyperdissyllable, duodecasyllable, dissyllabism, triscele, triskele.
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