Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of four syllables.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having four syllables.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting of, or having, four syllables; quadrisyllabic.
Etymologies
- From tetra- + syllabic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Garcilasso de la Vega, a descendant of the Incas, has preserved an ancient indigenous poem of his nation, presenting the storm myth in a different form, which as undoubtedly authentic and not devoid of poetic beauty I translate, preserving as much as possible the trochaic tetrasyllabic verse of the original Quichua: --”
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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hernesheir (n): comprised of four syllables. Dec 30, 2008