amphimacer

[ am-fim-uh-ser ]

nounProsody.
  1. 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
1580–90; <Latin amphimacrus<Greek amphímakros long at both ends. See amphi-, macro-; cf. amphibrach
  • Also called cre·tic [kree-tik] /ˈkri tɪk/ .

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British Dictionary definitions for amphimacer

amphimacer

/ (æmˈfɪməsə) /


noun
  1. prosody another word for cretic

Origin of amphimacer

1
C16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long

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