adj
Meaning 1
Having eleven syllables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hendecasyllabic
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /hɛnˌdɛk.ə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
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Australian: /henˌdek.ə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
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General-American: /hɛnˌdɛk.ə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
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rhymes with -æbɪk
noun
Meaning 2
A word or line of eleven syllables.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἑνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasúllabos), from ἕνδεκα (héndeka, “eleven”) + συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: hendecasíl·lab — having eleven syllables
- Catalan: hendecasil·làbic — having eleven syllables
- Dutch: elflettergrepig — having eleven syllables
- Finnish: yksitoistatavuinen — having eleven syllables
- Galician: hendecasílabo — having eleven syllables
- German: elfsilbig — having eleven syllables
- Hungarian: tizenegy szótagú/szótagos — having eleven syllables
- Polish: jedenastozgłoskowy — having eleven syllables
- Portuguese: hendecassílabo — having eleven syllables
- Russian: одиннадцатисложный (odinnadcatisložnyj) — having eleven syllables
- Spanish: endecasílabo — having eleven syllables