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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

multisyllabic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English syllabic English multisyllabic From multi- + syllabic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a word) Having more than one syllable.
    • But it’s a dialect Fetter doesn’t know. It sounds old, rolling and multisyllabic and liquid. 2023, Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors, Solaris (2024), page 305:

Antonyms

monosyllabic

Deriveds

multisyllabically

Synonyms

polysyllabic