disyllableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From di- +‎ syllable.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdī-ˌsi-lə-bəl/

名詞

disyllable (plural disyllables)

1. A word comprising two syllables.
   • 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     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.

同意語

• duosyllable

等位語

• monosyllable
• trisyllable
• tetrasyllable
• pentasyllable
• sexisyllable
• heptasyllable
• octosyllable
• enneasyllable
• decasyllable
• endecasyllable
• dodecasyllable
• polysyllable

派生語

関連する語

• disyllabic