imparisyllabic love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not consisting of an equal number of syllables.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Gram.) Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; ; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.
  • noun An imparisyllabic noun.

Etymologies

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From Latin impar ("unequal") + syllabic.

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Examples

  • In the first example the unaccented syllable with which the imparisyllabic (odd) verse should end is omitted in the second and fourth lines.

    Miscellany 1784

  • That species of our verse wherein the accent falls on all the odd syllables, I shall call, from that circumstance, odd or imparisyllabic verse.

    Miscellany 1784

  • In imparisyllabic verse none, because that consists of trochees invariably; if an unaccented syllable happens to be prefixed to the verse, he will discover it by the number of syllables.

    Miscellany 1784

  • An odd number of syllables with a single rhyme, or an even number with a double rhyme, prove the verse to be imparisyllabic.

    Miscellany 1784

  • If he can find in the piece any one word the accent of which he already knows, that word will enable him to distinguish if it be parisyllabic or imparisyllabic.

    Miscellany 1784

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  • sprung rhythm is rather elastic

    With changes from small to the drastic,

    So words you thought odd

    Can be even trod

    Though looking imparisyllabic.

    July 27, 2017