amphimacer

American

[am-fim-uh-ser] / æmˈfɪm ə sər /

noun

Prosody.

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 British

/ æmˈfɪməsə /

noun

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-; cf. amphibrach

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amphimacer

The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle

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