feminine ending
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Prosody. an unaccented syllable at the close of a line of poetry, often one that is added to the metrical pattern as an extra syllable.
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Grammar. a termination or final syllable marking a feminine word: In Latin -ā is a feminine ending for the ablative case in the singular.
noun
Etymology
Origin of feminine ending
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Fay, Amy, account of Liszt, 217. feminine ending, 57.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
In the succeeding specimen the same measure is used with feminine ending.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
In the latter case, however, the first light syllable of line 5 is really supplied by the syllable added to make the feminine ending of line 4.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Another feminine ending among the Anglo-Saxons was gith, which, as elsewhere noted, I have supposed to mean woman or goddess.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
On this account some speak of three accents in the first half line, with a feminine ending.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
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