trisyllabic

That verse wherein the accent falls on every third syllable, may be called trisyllabic verse; it is equivalent to what has been called anapestic; and we will still use the term anapest to express two unaccented and one accented syllable.

Miscellany 1784

He wrote the book, and much of the rest of his life's work, in rhyming anapestic meter, also called trisyllabic meter.

APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed 2010

Plus, it just sounds better as a trisyllabic epithet.

Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor 2010

** The Fog Index: [(number of words/number of sentences) + words three syllables and above, not counting proper nouns or words made trisyllabic with simple "- ing" type suffixes] x 0.4 = the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

If all are disyllabic or trisyllabic, then there will be either 102 or 153 syllables.

Archive 2007-08-01 2007

Obama, too, is now strongly associated with a straightforward, trisyllabic message -- "Yes we can" -- although instead of imperatively employing a negative of a negative ( "Don't be evil"), his is an optimistic, election-ready double positive.

Teddy Wayne: Goobama: Obama Is the Google Candidate 2008

However, although his actual name isn't Miltonic or especially literary, it is indeed trisyllabic with a disyllabic nickname, and Latinate, and has at least a sort of Early Modern connection.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

Shakespeare chooses names for them that are similar almost the the point of interchangeability: Hermia, Helena, both trisyllabic, beginning in 'He' with the stress on the first syllable and ending in 'a'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

"Neutrinics" was trisyllabic nonsense to Mrs. Potterley, but she knew it had nothing to do with history.

The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990

= There are twenty trisyllabic pentameter endings in

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid