trisyllables

Place-names -- such as Béjar (p. 58) and Córdoba (p. 184) -- are accentuated; so are trisyllables and polysyllables such as Góngora (p. 209) and Zúñiga (p. 57 and elsewhere).

Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

Desilio, desilis, desilii or desiliui: middle syllable short in trisyllables in the present; meaning, de aliquo salire siue descendere festinanter.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

In dissyllables and trisyllables, where the accent is on the last syllable, it is sufficiently indicated in the absence of the accentual mark, showing that the accent is on no preceding syllable.

The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association. 1861

The shift of the accent in what Mr. Masson calls "dissyllabic variations" is common to all pentameter verse, and, in the other case, most of the words cited as trisyllables either were not so in Milton's day, [375] or were so or not at choice of the poet, according to their place in the verse.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

The number of dissyllables is numerous, and of trisyllables still more so.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

The number of dissyllables is numerous, and of trisyllables still more so.

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

The trisyllables, and the rumblers of syllables more than three, are but the good-for-little magnates.]

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Perhaps were I to sit down and tell every one in trisyllables what they already know only too well about the crops, and the weather, and the Colorado beetle, and so forth, I might perchance wake up some morning to find myself famous. "

Molly Bawn Margaret Wolfe Hamilton