tetrasyllabic

adjective

tet·​ra·​syllabic

variants or tetrasyllabical

"+

: having four syllables

Word History

Etymology

Greek tetrasyllabos (from tetra- + -syllabos, from syllabē syllable) + English -ic or -ical

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