amphimacer
[am-fim-uh-ser]
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.
Nearby words
- amphigenous,
- amphigory,
- amphigouri,
- amphikaryon,
- amphilochus,
- amphimarus,
- amphimixis,
- amphinome,
- amphinomus,
- amphion
Origin of amphimacer
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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amphimacer
noun
Word Origin for amphimacer
C16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long
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