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octosyllabic

adj
/ˌɒk.təʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/UK/ˌɔk.təʉ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk//ˌɑk.toʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/US

Etymology

From octo- + syllabic.

  1. derived from συλλαβικός
  2. derived from syllabicus
  3. prefixed as octosyllabic — “octo + syllabic”

Definitions

  1. Containing eight syllables

    • If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]

  2. A word of eight syllables.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for octosyllabic. 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