Meanings
adjectiveimparisyllabic (not comparable)
- not comparableNot having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.
nounimparisyllabic (plural imparisyllabics)
plural imparisyllabics
- An imparisyllabic noun.
An adjectival type corresponding phonetically to the masculine third declension imparisyllabics is represented by some O.F. survivals of Latin comparative forms
1974 (revised 1989), Peter Rickard, A History of the French Language, Routledge 2002, pp. 50-1
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
Origin
- Latinimpar“unequal”
- Englishimparisyllabic
From Latin impar (“unequal”) + syllabic.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German ungleichsilbig
- ungleichsilbignot having the same number of syllables
Greek ανισοσύλλαβος
- ανισοσύλλαβος (anisosýllavos)not having the same number of syllables
Hungarian egyenlőtlen szótagszámú
- egyenlőtlen szótagszámúnot having the same number of syllables
Latin perittosyllabus
- perittosyllabusnot having the same number of syllables
Portuguese imparissílabo, imparissilábico
- imparissílabonot having the same number of syllables
- imparissilábiconot having the same number of syllables
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Chicago
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