trisyllabic
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˌtraɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/us/ˌtraɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/(of a word) having threesyllables:
(词)三音节的Thestudyof French-speakingchildrenfoundthatdeterminerswereproducedearlierwithmonosyllabicwords, andlaterwithdisyllabicand trisyllabic words.对法语儿童的研究发现,单音节词的定语较早开始使用,而双音节词和三音节词的定语使用较晚。
- There are fewmonosyllabicfemalefirstnames(Ann, Joan, May) and many of them are trisyllabic or more (Katharine, Elizabeth, Amanda).
- Thebirdsmake ashrill, trisyllabicalarmcry.
- When thesecondarystresswaslost, theinitialstressedvowelin trisyllabic words was usuallyshortened, asshownin theexamplesbelow.
- Hesuggeststhat thepresenceofsecondarystresscausedvowelstoremainshortin bothdisyllabicand trisyllabic words.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ion
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- suffix
- there'd
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllable