Meaning

1 senses
  1. A word or line of eleven syllables.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἑνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasúllabos),

Borrowed from Latin hendecasyllabus, from Ancient Greek ἑνδεκασύλλαβος (hendekasúllabos), from ἕνδεκα (héndeka, “eleven”) + συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).

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Forms

plural: hendecasyllabics
Singularhendecasyllabic
Pluralhendecasyllabics

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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