disyllable

disyllable

English

Alternative forms

• dissyllable

Etymology

di- +‎ syllable

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/

Noun

disyllable (plural disyllables)

1. A word comprising two syllables.
   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎:

     He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.

Related terms

• disyllabic

Translations

a word comprising two syllables

German: zweisilbiges Wort, Zweisilber (de), Zweisilbler, Disyllabum, Dissyllabum Interlingua: bisyllabo Irish: déshiollach m Italian: bisillabo m, disillabo m Manx: daa-heeley m Scottish Gaelic: dà-shioladh m