nonasyllabic

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Etymology[edit]

nona- +‎ syllabic

Adjective[edit]

nonasyllabic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Having nine syllables.
    • 2004, A. Teeuw, A merry senhor in the Malay world: four texts of the Syair Sinyor Kosta:
      Most of the trisyllabic words in nonasyllabic lines are monomorphemic.

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