quadrisyllable

[ kwod-ruh-sil-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈkwɒd rəˌsɪl ə bəl /

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noun

a word of four syllables.

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Origin of quadrisyllable

First recorded in 1650–60; quadri- + syllable

OTHER WORDS FROM quadrisyllable

quad·ri·syl·lab·ic

[kwod-ruh-si-lab-ik], /ˌkwɒd rə sɪˈlæb ɪk/, quad·ri·syl·lab·i·cal, adjective

Words nearby quadrisyllable

quadriplegia, quadriplegic, quadripole, quadrireme, quadrisect, quadrisyllable, quadrivalent, quadrivial, quadrivium, quadrominium, quadroon

How to use quadrisyllable in a sentence

Quadrisyllable, kwod-ri-sil′a-bl n. a word consisting of four syllables.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
They are, in the way of metre, choriambics; and a choriambic is a quadrisyllable foot.
Opuscula|Robert Gordon Latham
But Alexandrides lengthens the word into a quadrisyllable, and calls it .
The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenus|Athenus
Ovid admitted quadrisyllable endings more freely if they were proper names.
The Last Poems of Ovid|Ovid

For Ovid's use of quadrisyllable endings for pentameters, see at ii 10 Alcinoo (p 164).
The Last Poems of Ovid|Ovid