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sesquisyllable

Today it means: A prosodic word consisting of an unstressed “minor” syllable followed by a stressed “major” syllable. Full definition →

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From sesqui- (“one-and-a-half”) + syllable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.