English edit

Etymology edit

dis- +‎ syllabize

Verb edit

dissyllabize (third-person singular simple present dissyllabizes, present participle dissyllabizing, simple past and past participle dissyllabized)

  1. To form into two syllables.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dissyllabize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)