undecasyllabic

English

Etymology

undeca- +‎ syllabic

Adjective

undecasyllabic (not comparable)

(linguistics, poetry) Having eleven syllables.
- 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Central America. 1886-1887, page 61:
  The subdivision forms octave stanzas of the Italian form, undecasyllabic triple measure, in feminine rhyme, of triple alternating lines, with a finishing couplet.

Translations

having eleven syllables

Breton: unneksilabennek (br)

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