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hypermonosyllable

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + monosyllable; coined by the poet Robert Bridges.

  1. derived from συλλαβή
  2. derived from syllaba
  3. derived from sillebe
  4. derived from sillable
  5. inherited from syllable
  6. formed as monosyllable — “mono- + syllable”
  7. prefixed as hypermonosyllable — “hyper + monosyllable”

Definitions

  1. A word of multiple syllables, such as "power", when presented (e.g. in poetry) as having…

    A word of multiple syllables, such as "power", when presented (e.g. in poetry) as having only one syllable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypermonosyllable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA