octosyllabic

English

Alternative forms

• octasyllabic

Etymology

octo- +‎ syllabic

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒk.təʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɔk.təʉ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑk.toʊ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -æbɪk

Adjective

octosyllabic (not comparable)

1. Containing eight syllables
   • 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:

     If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]

Related terms

• octosyllable

Translations

containing 8 syllables

• Breton: eizhsilabennek (br)
• Dutch: achtlettergrepig
• Esperanto: oksilaba
• Finnish: kahdeksantavuinen
• German: achtsilbig (de)
• Hungarian: nyolc szótagú/szótagos
• Serbo-Croatian: osmèračkī (sh)
• Spanish: octosílabo (es), octosilábico