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Meaning of "octosyllabic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OCTOSYLLABIC

octosyllabic  [ˈɒktəʊsɪˈlæbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCTOSYLLABIC

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

WHAT DOES OCTOSYLLABIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Octosyllable

The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or trochees in languages with a stress accent. Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the Vie de Saint Leger; another early use is in the early 12th-century Anglo-Norman Voyage de saint Brendan. It is often used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. While commonly used in couplets, typical stanzas using octosyllables are: décima, some quatrains, redondilla. In Spanish verse, an octosyllable is a line that has its seventh syllable stressed, on the principle that this would normally be the penultimate syllable of a word. If the final word of a line does not fit this pattern, the line could have eight or seven or nine syllables, thus - 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Gra/NA/da 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Ma/DRID 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / MA//ga In Medieval French literature, the octosyllable rhymed couplet was the most common verse form used in verse chronicles, romances, lais and dits.

Definition of octosyllabic in the English dictionary

The definition of octosyllabic in the dictionary is composed of eight syllables. Other definition of octosyllabic is having eight syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCTOSYLLABIC


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCTOSYLLABIC

octogenary
octogynous
octohedron
octonarian
octonaries
octonarius
octonary
octonocular
octopetalous
octopod
octopodan
octopodous
octopus
octopush
octopusher
octoroon
octosepalous
octostichous
octosyllable
octothorp

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCTOSYLLABIC

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 octosyllabic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «octosyllabic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCTOSYLLABIC

Find out the translation of octosyllabic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of octosyllabic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «octosyllabic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

八音节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

octosílabo
570 millions of speakers

English

octosyllabic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अष्टपद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

octosyllabic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

восьмисложный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

octossilábico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অষ্টস্বরবিশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octosyllabique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Octosyllabic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

achtsilbigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

octosyllabic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

octosyllabic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Octosyllabic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câu thơ tám âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

octosyllabic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अष्टकोलीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sekiz heceli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ottosillabico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

octosyllabic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

восьмісложний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

octosyllabic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

octosyllabic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

achtlettergrepig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

octosyllabic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

octosyllabic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of octosyllabic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABIC»

The term «octosyllabic» is used very little and occupies the 163.860 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTOSYLLABIC»

Discover the use of octosyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to octosyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Folklore of Spain in the American Southwest: Traditional ...
The octosyllabic quatrain, however, is by far the most common type, not only in New Mexico but in all other parts of the Spanish-speaking world as well. The great popularity of the octosyllabic quatrain type of copla in New Mexico is another ...
Aurelio M. Espinosa, J. Manuel Espinosa, 1990
2
A New History of English Metre
It is easy to see why an octosyllabic metre should be the first to develop under French influence: it represents a combination of two traditional parameters, French position size (one syllable), and Germanic position number (eight). Thus the ...
Martin J. Duffell, 2008
3
The New Historians of the Twelfth-century Renaissance: ...
Certainly the octosyllabic couplet is not primarily a romance verse- form, if for no other reason than the comparative lateness of the romance genre, but has links rather with didactic literature - including hagiography and historiography.
Peter Damian-Grint, 1999
4
A Companion to Wace
As with his religious works, Wace composed his Roman de Brut in octosyllabic couplets. His choice of verse rather than prose, and of the octosyllabic couplet rather than some other metre, has been questioned by scholars at various times,  ...
Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux, 2005
5
Selected Writings: Early Slavic Paths and Crossroads
Usually the line tends toward an octosyllabic scheme, and octosyllabic lines are in a relative majority, followed only by 9-syllable lines. Units which do not deviate from the octosyllabic scheme by more than one syllable (i.e. lines of 8, 9 or 7 ...
Roman Jakobson, 1985
6
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic ...
TRADITIONAL ROMANCES, LULLABIES, AND WORK SONGS The roots of the traditional Cuban cancionero can be traced to Spanish folk poetry in quatrains of octosyllabic verses, or coplas that, from time immemorial, served the people to ...
Kuss, Malena
7
From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance
And this rime seems to be forcing on it a new regularisation, that of equal-halved distichs rimed together iu the exact fashion of the French octosyllabic couplet When we turn to the other and smaller poems of the period we find this process of  ...
A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller, 1978
8
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Complete)
My very dear Friend,—I hear with wonder from Arabel of your repudiation of my word 'octosyllabic' for the two lines in your controversial poem. Certainly, if you count the syllables on your fingers, thereareten syllables ineach line: of that Iam ...
E. B. Browning, 1983
9
Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...
lies in an octosyllabic couplet; and what business has that in your heroic libel? The 'pearl' of maidens sendsher love to you. Your very affectionate ELIZABETH B .BARRETT. To H.S.Boyd May 14, 1843. My very dear Friend, — I hear with ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2013
10
The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana In_s de la Cruz: A ...
... decimal: a ten-line stanza of octosyllabic verse falda y empeno: "petticoat and perseverance," a reference to plays in which determined women are the protagonists loa: a brief dramatic poem celebrating a famous person or event mojiganga: ...
Guillermo Schmidhuber

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTOSYLLABIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term octosyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Royal road to the Bard: Shakespeare's sonnets
It's octosyllabic, a bastard work. But there are 154 that are presented as the sonnets. Pasa: I have the sense that Shakespeare's sonnets are not ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Apr 15»
2
Boys' Sweet Sixteen: Doss Dragons find their fire after trailing …
How many English words are octosyllabic? NINE inches starting right here. The square root of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Mar 15»
3
Trend Alert: Rose, in Any Form, Looks Just as Good
Like an octosyllabic couplet, the rose runs along all six yards of a saree; like the thorny outcrops of wilderness, it clambers over the barren ... «The New Indian Express, May 14»
4
Gymnastics: Cats ride resilient performance to season-opening win …
How many English words are octosyllabic? NINE inches starting right here. The square root of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jan 14»
5
It happened here… Payadors and the roots of rap
Verses are generally 10 lines long and made up of 10 octosyllabic verses comprising four rhymes with different sounds and literary devices like ... «Red Bull, Nov 13»
6
Dances of Death
Underneath each dancer an eight-line octosyllabic stanza offered a moralistic commentary with a distinct social edge: death treats all estates ... «OUPblog, Oct 12»
7
Book World: 'Almost Never' by Daniel Sada
Like Faulkner or Joyce or David Foster Wallace, he produced rich, dense, diabolically difficult novels — some written in octosyllabic and ... «Washington Post, May 12»
8
Jewellery designer Puja Bhargava Kamath on her brand 'Lai'
And in French, it translates to a lyrical and narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets. There was no specific reason for me to choose this ... «Daily News & Analysis, Sep 11»
9
10 Literary Terms You Might Not Know
Fabliaux flourished in France in the 12th and 13th centuries, and were usually written in octosyllabic couplets; some 150 French examples ... «OUPblog, Mar 09»
10
Getting High For Your Health
More commonly known as THC (because, let's face it, anyone under its influence isn't going to be able to get that octosyllabic word out of his ... «Popular Science, Sep 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Octosyllabic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/octosyllabic>. Apr 2024 ».
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