Definition of "quadrisyllable" []

• A word of four syllables. (noun)

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• "Ovid admitted quadrisyllable endings more freely if they were proper names."
• "Of the twenty-one quadrisyllable verse-endings in the _Ex Ponto_, six involve proper nouns: II ii 76 _Dalmatiae_, ix 42 _Alcinoi_, the present passage, IV iii 54 _Anticyra_, viii 62 _Oechalia_, and ix 80"
• "Propertius 'similar practice: 42 of the 166 quadrisyllable pentameter endings in Propertius are proper names (Platnauer 17)."