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PRONUNCIATION OF HENDECASYLLABIC

hendecasyllabic  [hɛnˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HENDECASYLLABIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hendecasyllabic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HENDECASYLLABIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hendecasyllable

The hendecasyllable is a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry.

Definition of hendecasyllabic in the English dictionary

The definition of hendecasyllabic in the dictionary is having 11 syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HENDECASYLLABIC


asyllabic
ˌæsɪˈlæbɪk
decasyllabic
ˌdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
dissyllabic
ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk
disyllabic
ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk
dodecasyllabic
ˌdəʊdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
heptasyllabic
ˌheptəsɪˈlæbɪk
imparisyllabic
ɪmˌpærsɪˈlæbɪk
monosyllabic
ˌmɒnəsɪˈlæbɪk
multisyllabic
ˌmʌltɪsɪˈlæbɪk
nonsyllabic
ˌnɒnsɪˈlæbɪk
octosyllabic
ˈɒktəʊsɪˈlæbɪk
parisyllabic
ˌpærɪsɪˈlæbɪk
pentasyllabic
ˌpɛntəsɪˈlæbɪk
perissosyllabic
pəˌrɪsəʊsɪˈlæbɪk
polysyllabic
ˌpɒlɪsɪˈlæbɪk
quadrisyllabic
ˌkwɒdrɪsɪˈlæbɪk
rabic
ˈræbɪk
syllabic
sɪˈlæbɪk
tetrasyllabic
ˌtɛtrəsɪˈlæbɪk
trisyllabic
ˌtraɪsɪˈlæbɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HENDECASYLLABIC

henceforwards
henchman
henchmen
henchperson
henchwoman
hencoop
hend
hendecagon
hendecagonal
hendecahedra
hendecahedron
hendecasyllable
Henderson
hendiadys
Hendra
Hendrix
Hendry
henequen
henequin
henge

WORDS THAT END LIKE HENDECASYLLABIC

aerobic
agoraphobic
amoebic
anaerobic
Arabic
cannabic
claustrophobic
coulombic
cubic
gum arabic
homophobic
hydrophobic
limbic
Mozarabic
orthorhombic
Pan-Arabic
phobic
pubic
suprapubic
xenophobic

Synonyms and antonyms of hendecasyllabic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hendecasyllabic» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

hendecasyllabic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

endecasílabo
570 millions of speakers

English

hendecasyllabic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hendecasyllabic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hendecasyllabic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hendecasyllabic
278 millions of speakers

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hendecasyllabic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hendecasyllabic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hendecasyllabic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hendecasyllabic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hendecasyllabic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hendecasyllabic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hendecasyllabic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hendecasyllabic
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hendecasyllabic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hendecasyllabic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेन्डेकसेमेलबिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hendecasyllabic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

endecasillabo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hendecasyllabic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hendecasyllabic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hendecasyllabic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hendecasyllabic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hendecasyllabic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hendecasyllabic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hendecasyllabic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hendecasyllabic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HENDECASYLLABIC»

The term «hendecasyllabic» is used very little and occupies the 189.009 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HENDECASYLLABIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hendecasyllabic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HENDECASYLLABIC»

Discover the use of hendecasyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hendecasyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Classical Journal
264. Heerenii dissertatio de Chori Grzncorum Tragici natura, xxx. 28. Heliodorus, remarks on, viii. 347. Hendecasyllabic measures, formation and connection of, xxxiii. 30. Hendecasyllabic measures, xxxiv. 134. Hermann. de particula Ev, xxxiv .
‎1829
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Poetry Kaleidoscope:
Back | Home | Up | Next The Hendecasyllabic verse is a quantitative metre used by Catullus. The pattern is as follows (L = long syllable, s = short syllable, | = foot division): LL|Lss|Ls|Ls|Ls (spondee | dactyl | trochee | trochee | trochee) The first  ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
3
A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
Although Horace wrote no hendecasyllabic poems, it was the favorite meter of Catullus (used in forty poems) and is found in the works of Martial and Statius as well. The rhythmic pattern is quite straightforward: a spondee, a dactyl, and three  ...
David J. Califf, 2002
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The Robert Frost Encyclopedia
LYRIC 199 The formal music of lyric poetry includes rhythmic patterns, metrics, which in Frost are as sophisticated as his rhyme schemes. Reuben Brower has noted that "For Once, Then, Something" uses the hendecasyllabic meter of Catullus ...
Nancy Lewis Tuten, John Zubizarreta, 2001
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The Judgment of Palaemon: The Contest between Neo-Latin and ...
... byJean—Pierre de Mesme, 'Delle tre Inglese Sorelle' K3v—K4r) and a Sonnet, 'Di gigli' ornato 'l reale giardino' (f. K4"), by de Mesme. Hendecasyllabic poem by Matthaeus Pacus on the Seymour sisters, 'Priscorum monimenta rettulerunt' (f.
Philip Ford, 2013
6
Flavian Poetry
Martial regarded the metre as quintessentially Catullan is shown by the large number of epigrams in which the hendecasyllabic metre is combined with Catullan themes and language. A good example is 3.12, based on Catul. 13 cenabis bene ...
Ruurd Robijn Nauta, Harm-Jan Van Dam, Johannes Jacobus Louis Smolenaars, 2006
7
Dictionary of Poetic Terms
Hemistichomythia indicates verse composed of a series of half-lines. hendecasyllabic verse (hendecasyllabic, Greek for "eleven-syllabled"; also called "phalaecean," after the Greek poet Phalaikos) an 11 -syllable line composed of trochees or ...
Jack Elliott Myers, Don C. Wukasch, 2003
8
Poetical Works
When it occurs in a line of the first sort, z'.e. composed otherwise of five pure consecutive Iambi, it simply makes that line 5.m+, or hendecasyllabic : e.g. “ While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither.” When it occurs in a line of the second ...
John Milton, David Masson, 1874
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Exercises in Latin verse of various kinds. [With] Key
INDEX TO FIEST LINES NO. FIRST LINE NO. OF LINES METRE PAGE I. Rest, weary stranger, etc. . . 6 Hendecasyllabic 85 II. Look not thou on beauty's charming 8 Hendecasyllabic 85 in. In Koln, a town of monks and bones 10 Hipponactean ...
George Preston, 1889
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A Manual of Latin Prosody
Alcaic Hendecasyllabic, Composed of an Iambic Penthemimer, followed by a pure Dactylic Dimeter Acatalectic — _l | Dissolve frigus ligna super foco. H. I., ix., 5. Vldes, ut alta stet nive candidum. H. I., ix., 1. This forms the first two lines of the  ...
William Ramsay, 1859

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HENDECASYLLABIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hendecasyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Art of Translation
In it, Kadare refers to a mildly avant-garde and therefore politically scandalous hendecasyllabic couplet that had written in Albanian. It's not a ... «Wall Street Journal, Nov 14»
2
The Graduate
I used to want to be a starving artist, to illustrate children's books in hendecasyllabic Latin. The past year has shifted that: I instead want to work ... «Harvard Crimson, Jul 14»
3
Book World: 'Almost Never' by Daniel Sada
... hendecasyllabic meter, all punctuated with a set of bizarre rules. But the rewards, for anyone in love with the Spanish language, were legion. «Washington Post, May 12»
4
Inferno and Paradiso, review
... théâtre – into which not a single hendecasyllabic line of the original has crept – point to one end: a vision of unremediable human loneliness. «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 09»
5
First Chapter
"A rispetto, professor, is a kind of lyrical verse, romantic to be precise, similar to the strambotto, with six or eight hendecasyllabic lines, the first ... «New York Times, Apr 07»
6
Unlocking the Poet Within.
For instance, in a discussion of hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines, Fry includes Frost's “And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver. «New York Times, Oct 06»
7
Postscript to the life of a soldier
When she writes: 'I am the mother of a son killed in Iraq; you are the mother of the man who killed him,' it is almost hendecasyllabic [the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Dec 05»

REFERENCE
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