The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἑνδεκασύλλαβος
- Latin · borrowed fromhendecasyllabus
- English todayhendecasyllable
Borrowed from Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἑνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasúllabos); equivalent to hendeca- + syllable.
Words from the same roots
Latinhendecasyllabus all →
hendecasyllabic
Ancient Greekἑνδεκασύλλαβος all →
hendecasyllabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.