quadrisyllable

[ kwod-ruh-sil-uh-buh l ]

/ ˈkwɒd rəˌsɪl ə bəl /

a word of four syllables.

Origin of quadrisyllable

First recorded in 1650–60; quadri- + syllable

quad·ri·syl·lab·ic

[kwod-ruh-si-lab-ik] /ˌkwɒd rə sɪˈlæb ɪk/, quad·ri·syl·lab·i·cal, adjective

For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii 10 Alcinoo (p 164).

The Last Poems of Ovid |Ovid
Quadrisyllable, kwod-ri-sil′a-bl n. a word consisting of four syllables.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) |Various
For Ovid's use of quadrisyllable endings for pentameters, see at ii 10 Alcinoo (p 164).

The Last Poems of Ovid |Ovid
They are, in the way of metre, choriambics; and a choriambic is a quadrisyllable foot.

Opuscula |Robert Gordon Latham

But Alexandrides lengthens the word into a quadrisyllable, and calls it .

The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athenus |Athenus