containing eleven syllables: said as of a line of verse
Word origin
L hendecasyllabus < Gr hendekasyllabos: see hendeca- & syllable
hendecasyllabic in American English
(henˌdekəsɪˈlæbɪk, ˌhendek-)
adjective
1.
having 11 syllables
noun
2.
a hendecasyllable
Word origin
[1720–30; hendecasyllable + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1720–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: arrangement, catchword, fantail, joker, stylus-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)