amphimacer

[ 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.

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Also called cre·tic [kree-tik] /ˈkri tɪk/.

Origin of amphimacer

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

Words nearby amphimacer

amphigenous, amphigory, amphigouri, amphikaryon, amphilochus, amphimacer, amphimarus, amphimixis, amphinome, amphinomus, amphion
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British Dictionary definitions for amphimacer

amphimacer
/ (æmˈfɪməsə) /

noun

prosody another word for cretic

Word Origin for amphimacer

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