dipody
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a group of two feet in English poetry, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress, used as a prosodic measurement in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse.
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a prosodic measurement of two feet in classical Greek and Latin poetry.
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Origin of dipody
1835–45; < Late Latin dipodia < Greek: the quality of having two feet, equivalent to dipod- (stem of dípous ) two-footed ( see di- 1, -pod) + -ia -y 3
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The iambic trimeter in Greek consists of three dipodies or six iambs; as used by English prosodists it consists of three iambs.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
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