octosyllable

English

Etymology

From octo- +‎ syllable.

Noun

octosyllable (plural octosyllables)

1. (poetry) line of verse with eight syllables

Coordinate terms

• monosyllable
• disyllable
• trisyllable
• tetrasyllable
• pentasyllable
• sexisyllable
• heptasyllable
• enneasyllable
• decasyllable
• endecasyllable
• dodecasyllable
• polysyllable

Related terms

• octosyllabic

Translations

line of verse with eight syllables

• Serbo-Croatian: osmérac (sh) m

Further reading

• octosyllable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia