Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word with two syllables.
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- noun A
word comprising twosyllables .
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- noun a word having two syllables
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Examples
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff).
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff).
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff).
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff.
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= The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52,
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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_Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen _Heroides_ ends in a disyllable.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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= The same phrase in the same position (leaving space for the disyllable) at _EP_ III iii 26 'et coit astrictis _barbarus
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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It is particularly frequent in the latter half of the pentameter, immediately before the disyllable: compare, from many instances, _AA_ III 431-32 '_ire_ solutis/crinibus et fletus non
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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