| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| hendecasyllabic |
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| SYLLABICATION: | hen·dec·a·syl·lab·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h n-dk  -s -l b k |
| ADJECTIVE: | Containing 11 syllables. | | NOUN: | A verse of 11 syllables. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin hendecasyllabus, a line of eleven syllables, from Greek hendekasullabos : hendeka, eleven ( hen, neuter of heis, one; see sem-1 in Appendix I + deka, ten; see decade) + sullab , syllable; see syllable. | | OTHER FORMS: | hen·deca·sylla·ble (-sl-bl) —NOUN
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