imparisyllabic
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˌpæɹɪsɪˈlæbɪk/
Adjective
imparisyllabic (not comparable)
- Not having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.
Antonyms
Translations
not having the same number of syllables
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Noun
imparisyllabic (plural imparisyllabics)
- An imparisyllabic noun.
- 1974 (revised 1989), Peter Rickard, A History of the French Language, Routledge 2002, pp. 50-1:
- An adjectival type corresponding phonetically to the masculine third declension imparisyllabics is represented by some O.F. survivals of Latin comparative forms
- 1974 (revised 1989), Peter Rickard, A History of the French Language, Routledge 2002, pp. 50-1:
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