amphimacer

[ am-fim-uh-ser ]

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.

amphimacer

/ æmˈfɪməsə /

noun

1. See cretic
   prosody another word for cretic

Word History and Origins

Origin of amphimacer¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of amphimacer¹

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