What does trisyllable mean?
Definitions for trisyllable
ˈtraɪˌsɪl ə bəl, traɪˈsɪl-tri·syl·la·ble
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Princeton's WordNet
trisyllablenoun
a word having three syllables
Wiktionary
trisyllablenoun
a word comprised of three syllables
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
TRISYLLABLEnoun
A word consisting of three syllables.
Etymology: trisyllaba, Latin.
Wikipedia
trisyllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns. Speech can usually be divided up into a whole number of syllables: for example, the word ignite is made of two syllables: ig and nite. Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets written around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of Ur. This shift from pictograms to syllables has been called "the most important advance in the history of writing".A word that consists of a single syllable (like English dog) is called a monosyllable (and is said to be monosyllabic). Similar terms include disyllable (and disyllabic; also bisyllable and bisyllabic) for a word of two syllables; trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word of three syllables; and polysyllable (and polysyllabic), which may refer either to a word of more than three syllables or to any word of more than one syllable.
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trisyllable
A trisyllable is a word or term that consists of three separate syllables. Each syllable is a unit of pronunciation that has one vowel sound, and may or may not be surrounded by consonants. Thus, trisyllabic words have a structure broken up into three parts when spoken or written phonetically.
Webster Dictionary
Trisyllablenoun
a word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Trisyllable
trī-, or tri-sil′a-bl, n. a word of three syllables.—adjs. Trisyllab′ic, -al, pertaining to a trisyllable: consisting of three syllables.—adv. Trisyllab′ically. [Gr. treis, three, syllabē, syllable.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of trisyllable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of trisyllable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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