How To Use disyllable In A Sentence
- The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
- _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
- The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" (to stuff). French Word-A-Day:
- _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
- = 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
- A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
- = 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
- The six-letter disyllable comes from the verb "gaver" to stuff. French Word-A-Day:
- 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
- A disyllable or disyllabic word has two syllables, a trisyllable or trisyllabic word has three.
