cynoscephalae

Other forms of cynoscephalae

plural

cynoscephalaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cynoscephalae

What does cynoscephalae mean?

cynoscephalae means "the fields in Thessaly where in 197 BC the Romans defeated the Macedonians". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cynoscephalae?

cynoscephalae has 5 syllables: cy-no-sce-pha-lae. The stress falls on "sce".

What is another word for cynoscephalae?

Close synonyms include battle of Cynoscephalae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cynoscephalae a common word?

cynoscephalae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.