Trisyllables

_Monosyllables_ are generally compared by adding _er_ and _est; dissyllables, trisyllables_, &c. by _more_ and _most_; as, mild, milder, mildest; frugal, more frugal, most frugal; virtuous, more virtuous, most virtuous. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

Place-names -- such as Béjar (p. 58) and Córdoba (p. 184) -- are accentuated; so are trisyllables and polysyllables such as Góngora (p. 209) and Zúñiga (p. 57 and elsewhere). ❋ James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (N/A)

Monosyllables, dissyllables, and trisyllables had each their distinct time. ❋ Martha Warren Beckwith (1915)

Desilio, desilis, desilii or desiliui: middle syllable short in trisyllables in the present; meaning, de aliquo salire siue descendere festinanter. ❋ Unknown (1901)

In dissyllables and trisyllables, where the accent is on the last syllable, it is sufficiently indicated in the absence of the accentual mark, showing that the accent is on no preceding syllable. ❋ Unknown (1861)

The shift of the accent in what Mr. Masson calls "dissyllabic variations" is common to all pentameter verse, and, in the other case, most of the words cited as trisyllables either were not so in Milton's day, [375] or were so or not at choice of the poet, according to their place in the verse. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

The number of dissyllables is numerous, and of trisyllables still more so. ❋ Schoolcraft, H R (1851)

The trisyllables, and the rumblers of syllables more than three, are but the good-for-little magnates.] ❋ Unknown (2006)

Perhaps were I to sit down and tell every one in trisyllables what they already know only too well about the crops, and the weather, and the Colorado beetle, and so forth, I might perchance wake up some morning to find myself famous. " ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)

Place-names ” such as Bejar (p. 58) and Cordoba (p. 184) ” are accentuated; so are trisyllables and polysyllables such as Gongora (p. 209) and Zuniga (p. 57 and elsewhere). ❋ Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James (1921)