octosyllabic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From octo- +‎ syllabic.

Pronunciation

Adjective

octosyllabic (not comparable)

  1. Containing eight syllables
    • 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:
      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, []

Translations

Noun

octosyllabic (plural octosyllabics)

  1. A word of eight syllables.