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tetrabrach

[te-truh-brak]
noun Classical Prosody.
  1. a metrical foot or word of four short syllables.
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Origin of tetrabrach

< Greek tetrábrachys having four short syllables. See tetra-, brachy-
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British Dictionary definitions for tetrabrach

tetrabrach

noun
  1. (in classical prosody) a word or metrical foot composed of four short syllables (◡ ◡ ◡ ◡)
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Word Origin

C19: from Greek tetrabrakhus, from tetra- + brakhus short
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