disyllable

English

Alternative forms

• dissyllable

Etymology

Etymology tree

English di-

English syllable

English disyllable

From di- + syllable.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdī-ˌsi-lə-bəl/

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Noun

disyllable (plural disyllables)

1. A word comprising two syllables.
   • 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.

Synonyms

• duosyllable

Coordinate terms

• monosyllable
• trisyllable
• tetrasyllable
• pentasyllable
• sexisyllable
• heptasyllable
• octosyllable
• enneasyllable
• decasyllable
• endecasyllable
• dodecasyllable
• polysyllable

Derived terms

• hyperdisyllable

Related terms

• disyllabic

Translations

a word comprising two syllables

• German: zweisilbiges Wort, Zweisilber (de), Zweisilbler, Disyllabum, Dissyllabum
• Greek: δισύλλαβο (el) n (disýllavo)
• Interlingua: bisyllabo
• Irish: déshiollach m
• Italian: bisillabo m, disillabo m
• Manx: daa-heeley m
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-shioladh m