"pentasyllabic" meaning in English

See pentasyllabic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [US], /ˌpen.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [General-Australian]
Rhymes: -æbɪk Etymology: Late Latin pentasyllabos + English -ic Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la-lat|pentasyllabos}} Late Latin pentasyllabos, {{cog|en|-}} English, {{affix|en|-ic}} -ic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} pentasyllabic (not comparable)
  1. Having five syllables. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: quinquesyllabic Related terms: polysyllabic Translations (having five syllables): πεντᾰσῠ́λλᾰβος (pentăsŭ́llăbos) (Ancient Greek), pempsilabennek (Breton), vijflettergrepig (Dutch), viisitavuinen (Finnish), pentasyllabe (French), pentasyllabique (French), fünfsilbig (German), πεντασύλλαβος (pentasýllavos) (Greek), öt szótagú/szótagos (Hungarian), pentasillabo (Italian), pentasyllabos (Latin), pięciogłoskowy (Polish), pentasilabic (Romanian), пятисложный (pjatisložnyj) [masculine] (Russian), pentasílabo (Spanish), beş heceli (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-pentasyllabic-en-adj-vc~V55PT Categories (other): Five Disambiguation of Five: 46 54

Noun

IPA: /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌpɛn.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [US], /ˌpen.tə.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/ [General-Australian] Forms: pentasyllabics [plural]
Rhymes: -æbɪk Etymology: Late Latin pentasyllabos + English -ic Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la-lat|pentasyllabos}} Late Latin pentasyllabos, {{cog|en|-}} English, {{affix|en|-ic}} -ic Head templates: {{en-noun}} pentasyllabic (plural pentasyllabics)
  1. A word of five syllables; a pentasyllable.
    Sense id: en-pentasyllabic-en-noun-GUUq5-Bd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ic, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Five, Prosody Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ic: 27 73 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Breton translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Five: 46 54 Disambiguation of Prosody: 44 56

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.