Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of two syllables; dissyllabic.
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- adjective
Comprising twosyllables .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But “Stupid” fits the paradigm of adjectives that take - est perfectly: bisyllabic with stress on the first syllable and not derived from a participle.
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And now I think about it, the Sanskrit accent actually makes a point in favor of the bisyllabic version of the word parśú- which is, due to the consonant 'grade', expected to be oxytone I think.
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I know in several languages words ending in unstressed -i or -e, and no matter how hard I'd stress the first syllabe the ending keeps being different especially in simple, bisyllabic CVCV words.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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The incomparable Victor Mair, one of the most fecund China scholars of our day, on common bisyllabic terms in Mandarin.
Archive 2008-10-01 Michael Turton 2008
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She stopped me, and used a bisyllabic barnyard term to indicate her categorical rejection of such a creature.
Pyromaniacs DJP 2010
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She stopped me, and used a bisyllabic barnyard term to indicate her categorical rejection of such a creature.
Pyromaniacs DJP 2010
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("I know in several languages words ending in unstressed -i or -e, and no matter how hard I'd stress the first syllabe the ending keeps being different (especially in simple, bisyllabic CVCV words."
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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She replaced the bisyllabic number “14″ with the nearest monosyllabic number, namely 12″.
Simon Singh Rocks! cjohnson 2005
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