— trisyllabic /truy'si lab"ik, tris'i-/ , trisyllabical , adj. — trisyllabically , adv. — trisyllabism , n.
/truy"sil'euh beuhl, truy sil"-, tri-/ , n.
a word of three syllables, as pendulum.
[ 1580-90; TRI- + SYLLABLE, modeled on Gk trisýllabos having three syllables ]