Definition of "pentasyllabic" []

• Having five syllables. (adjective)

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• "= Ovid allows pentasyllabic words to end the pentameter only in the poetry of exile (Platnauer 17)."
• "For Ovid's use of trisyllabic and pentasyllabic endings, see at ix 26"
• "The later _Heroides_ have two pentasyllabic pentameter-endings, XVI 290"