Meanings
alternative octasyllabic
- not comparableContaining eight syllables
If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […]
1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination
plural octosyllabics · alternative octasyllabic
- A word of eight syllables.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
- Proto-Hellenic*oktṓ
- Ancient Greekὀκτώ (oktṓ)
- Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
- Proto-Italic*oktō
- Latinoctō
- Englishocto-
- Englishsyllabic
- Englishoctosyllabic
Translations
Dutch achtlettergrepig
- achtlettergrepigcontaining 8 syllables
Esperanto oksilaba
- oksilabacontaining 8 syllables
Finnish kahdeksantavuinen
- kahdeksantavuinencontaining 8 syllables
German achtsilbig
- achtsilbigcontaining 8 syllables
Hungarian nyolc szótagú/szótagos
- nyolc szótagú/szótagoscontaining 8 syllables
Spanish octosílabo, octosilábico
- octosílabocontaining 8 syllables
- octosilábicocontaining 8 syllables
Swedish åttastavig
- åttastavigcontaining 8 syllables
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with octosyllabic
All rhymes →Cite this entry
octosyllabic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/octosyllabic
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