amphimacer
[ am-fim-uh-ser ]
nounProsody.
a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is long, short, long in quantitative meter, or stressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter, as anodyne, an accentual amphimacer.
Origin of amphimacer
1- Also called cre·tic [kree-tik] /ˈkri tɪk/ .
Words Nearby amphimacer
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British Dictionary definitions for amphimacer
amphimacer
/ (æmˈfɪməsə) /
noun
prosody another word for cretic
Origin of amphimacer
1C16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long
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