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Meaning of "trisyllabic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRISYLLABIC

trisyllabic  [ˌtraɪsɪˈlæbɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRISYLLABIC

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

WHAT DOES TRISYLLABIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins. Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic meter and its stress patterns. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing". A word that consists of a single syllable is called a monosyllable. Similar terms include disyllable for a word of two syllables; trisyllable for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable, which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.

Definition of trisyllabic in the English dictionary

The definition of trisyllabic in the dictionary is relating to a word of three syllables.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRISYLLABIC


asyllabic
ˌæsɪˈlæbɪk
decasyllabic
ˌdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
dissyllabic
ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk
disyllabic
ˌdɪsɪˈlæbɪk
dodecasyllabic
ˌdəʊdekəsɪˈlæbɪk
hendecasyllabic
hɛnˌdɛkəsɪˈlæbɪk
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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRISYLLABIC

triste
tristearin
tristesse
tristeza
tristful
tristfully
tristfulness
tristich
tristichic
tristichous
tristimulus values
Tristram
trisubstituted
trisul
trisulcate
trisulfide
trisulphide
trisyllabical
trisyllabically
trisyllable

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRISYLLABIC

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 trisyllabic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trisyllabic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRISYLLABIC

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

Translator English - Chinese

三字
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trisyllabic
570 millions of speakers

English

trisyllabic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

trisyllabic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثلاثي المقاطع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трехсложный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trissilábicas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ত্রিস্বরা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trisyllabique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Trisyllabic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

trisyllabic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

3音節
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

trisyllabic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Trisyllabic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có ba âm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

trisyllabic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

त्रिमितीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üç heceli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trisillabica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trisyllabic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трискладовий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trisilabic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

trisyllabic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drielettergrepig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trisyllabic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trestavelses
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trisyllabic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRISYLLABIC»

The term «trisyllabic» is used very little and occupies the 152.458 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRISYLLABIC» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRISYLLABIC»

Discover the use of trisyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trisyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modern metrical technique: as illustrated by ballad meter ...
CHAPTER V TRISYLLABIC SUBSTITUTION Trisyllabie substitution is the practice by whichqeet of three syllables are mingled in the tame verse with feet of . two syllables. A quotation from The Ancient Mariner will serve as Illustration: For a ...
George Rippey Stewart, 1922
2
English Phonology: An Introduction
Moreover, consider again the rule of Trisyllabic taxing, (16) above. This rule brings about the laxness of the stressed vowel in sanity; but if we leave it unconstrained it will also wrongly affect the stressed vowels in nightingale, ivory, Oberon etc.
Heinz J. Giegerich, 1992
3
A Guide to Morphosyntax-phonology Interface Theories: How ...
By contrast, class 2 suffixes as under (66b) do not provoke any reaction.42 (66) Trisyllabic Shortening (or Laxening) non-trisyllabic item trisyllabic item a. class 1 suffix b. class 2 suffix sane [sejn] Christ [krajst] maiden [mejd ́n] wild [wajld] san-ity  ...
Tobias Scheer, 2011
4
Wu Wenying and the Art of Southern Song Ci Poetry
Trisyllabic lead-segments occur in lines of longer length, the most common being heptasyllabic and octosyllabic. In order to function metrically as a lead-segment, the initial character of the trisyllabic cluster has to be in the falling (or rising) ...
Grace S. Fong, 2014
5
Sextus Propertius: The Augustan Elegist
TRISYLLABIC PENTAMETER ENDINGS This chapter begins by directing attention towards the trisyllabic pentameter endings of Roman elegy. The aim of the enquiry is to try to determine whether, and if so to what extent, these endings can ...
Francis Cairns, 2006
6
Morphology: Morphology: its relation to phonology
What the theory entails for English is that Trisyllabic Shortening (and all rules that precede it) apply cyclically, and that Velar Softening (and all rules that follow it) apply postcyclically. This is indeed compatible with what is known about English  ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
7
El Rey Don Pedro en Madrid Y Infanzón de Illescas: Critical ...
They include agora, ahora, Maria, real, and Santiago. In the case of agora, the primary text clearly preferred agora (trisyllabic 1 6) over ahora (disyllabic i). The word ahora appears five times in the secondary text and is always trisyllabic.
Carol Bingham Kirby, 2003
8
A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French ...
One trisyllabic measure inevitably necessitates another, adjacent, a certain solidarity in the hemistich, equilibriating. Every word or word-group which constitutes a trisyllabic measure, imbues the line or hemistich, and indeed the ...
Clive Scott, 1986
9
English Lessons for English People
Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sir John Robert Seeley. two distinct parts. Thus it would appear that the sonnet attempts to combine two effects somewhat incongruous in their nature. Hence its peculiar difficulty. TRISYLLABIC METRE. 143. Early Use of  ...
Edwin Abbott Abbott, Sir John Robert Seeley, 1898
10
The Syllable in Optimality Theory
2.3.3.2 The Prosodic Basis of Trisyllabic Deletion There is good reason to be skeptical of Trisyllabic Deletion and the DY derivation based on it. Trisyllabic Deletion has a complex, nonlocal, and highly arbitrary environment – why should  ...
Caroline Féry, Ruben van de Vijver, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRISYLLABIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term trisyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Daptone Records' Saun and Starr Break Out From the Side Stage …
"It has that reverb and echo effect because it's kind of setting the tone," explains Starr of the song's intriguing trisyllabic nugget. "This is the nighttime — this is ... «Village Voice, May 15»
2
AWEme built a sweet Groot swing set for a guy (and his kid, too)
As host Alison Haislip informs the audience, the Colemans are all fans of Marvel's space opera, especially the trisyllabic tree character Groot. Master builder Tim ... «A.V. Club, Dec 14»
3
The Rise of ISIS Has Companies Pondering Name Changes
The word "Chicken" evoked the company's controversial livestock practices. The name change seems to have been successful in many regards, as the trisyllabic ... «Big Think, Sep 14»
4
La Vie Bohème: The Modern Student Activist
Fish, dairy, Roundtrees fruit pastels, anything trisyllabic… doesn't matter what. As long as you make it matter, like a lot. Avoid peanut allergies, if possible. «Varsity Online, May 14»
5
Meet My Metaphor
This is partly because of the rumbling clangor of the trisyllabic rhyme (the biggest and boldest such pairing in the poem) and partly because the introduction of ... «New Yorker, Nov 13»
6
Language learning begins in the womb
To investigate this, a group of researchers in Finland led by Professor Minna Huotilainen, played the sound of a trisyllabic word (tatata) in three different ways to ... «Blouin News Blogs, Sep 13»
7
Research Sheds New Light On Our Unique Ability To Learn …
The study involved 27 healthy volunteers who listened to nine artificial trisyllabic words with no meaning associated and with structures similar to the words of ... «RedOrbit, Jul 13»
8
Desado announces investment from iMENA Holdings; how does it …
Two MENAs (both investment vehicles based in Amman), two trisyllabic flash sales sites. But don't confuse either party with the other- rivalry between the two ... «Wamda, Jun 13»
9
A Korean Visitor Rekindles Memories in Flushing
But quickly, a different chant — a trisyllabic Korean name, Ryu Hyun Jin — burst through the din, the same way it happened at Shea Stadium almost two ... «New York Times, Apr 13»
10
DEBATT: Er engelsk eit skandinavisk språk? – Svært sannsynleg
I ME (1200-tallet) skjer en rekke endringer i stavelsesstruktur, bl.a. såkalt ”Open Syllable Lengthening” og ”Trisyllabic Shortening” av vokaler. Dette må ses i ... «Apollon Forskingsmagasin ved Universitetet i Oslo, Feb 13»

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