amphimacer

American  

[am-fim-uh-ser] / æmˈfɪm ə sər /

noun

Prosody.

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.

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amphimacer British  

/ æmˈfɪməsə /

noun

1. prosody another word for cretic

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Etymology

Origin of amphimacer

1580–90; < Latin amphimacrus < Greek amphímakros long at both ends. See amphi-, macro-; amphibrach

Example Sentences

Amphimacer, am-fim′a-sėr, n. in prosody, a foot of three syllables, the middle one short, and the first and last long, as cārĭtās.

From Project Gutenberg

Four groups, each practically uttered as one word: the first, in this case, an iamb; the second, an amphibrachys; the third, a trochee; and the fourth an amphimacer; and yet our schoolboy, with no other liberty but that of inflicting pain, had triumphantly scanned it as five iambs.

From Project Gutenberg

Those commonly accepted are: Iambus ⌣  —   Dactyl — ⌣⌣ Trochee — ⌣   Anapest ⌣ ⌣ — Spondee — —   Amphimacer — ⌣ — Amphibrach  ⌣ — ⌣ The dash stands for the accented syllable.

From Project Gutenberg

Amphimacer, - u - = ōvĕr hīll.

From Project Gutenberg

The tribrachus all his three parts swiftly: the antibacchius his two first partes slowly, his last & third swiftly: the amphimacer, his first & last part slowly & his middle part swiftly: the amphibracus his first and last parts swiftly but his midle part slowly, & so of others by like proportion.

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