The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἑνδεκασύλλαβος
- Latin · borrowed fromhendecasyllabus
- English todayhendecasyllabic
Borrowed from Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἑνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasúllabos), from ἕνδεκα (héndeka, “eleven”) + συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Words from the same roots
Latinhendecasyllabus all →
hendecasyllable
Ancient Greekἑνδεκασύλλαβος all →
hendecasyllable
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.