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▪ I. tribrach1 Prosody.|ˈtraɪbræk, ˈtrɪb-|
In 6 tribracchus, 8 tribrachus, 8–9 -ys; 7 tribrack.
[ad. L. tribrachys, a. Gr. τρίβραχυς, f. tri- + βραχύς short. Cf. F. tribraque (Littré).]
A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. (Arb.) 133 For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables. 1602T. Campion Art Eng. Poesie iv. 11 We may vse a Spondee or Iambick and sometime a Tribrack or Dactile. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tribrachus, or Tribrachys, (Gr.) a Foot in Greek and Latin Verse, consisting of three short Syllables; as Populus. 1827Tate Grk. Metres in Theat. Grks. (ed. 2) 436 Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable..is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee. 1885Goodell in Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. XVI. 88 The plain tribrach is frequent in every one's reading.
Hence tribrachic |traɪˈbrækɪk| a., consisting of three short syllables; also, composed of tribrachs.
1852J. S. Blackie Pronunciation of Greek 43 The tendency to the ineffective tribrachic and even proceleusmatic accent in the termination of our polysyllables. 1866Blackie Homer & Iliad I. 401 If the range of pure tribrachic measure, or of tribrachs intermingled with trochees, appears much wider in our song-books than in volumes of poetry written to be read.
▪ II. tribrach2|ˈtraɪbræk|
[f. tri- + Gr. βραχίων arm.]
A figure or object having three arms or branches; spec. a prehistoric flint implement of this form. So tribrachial |traɪˈbreɪkɪəl| a., having three arms or branches.
1873A. Way in Archæol. Jrnl. XXX. 28 The implement..is of a form that may be designated tribrachial, having three branches radiating from the centre. Ibid. 31 The unique tribrachial implement. Ibid., The flint tribrach was presented..by the late Dr. Martin in 1853, with other objects from Ventnor. 1897Sir. J. Evans Anc. Stone Implem. Gt. Brit. iv. 78 A singular instrument chipped out of flint, like three celts conjoined.., so as to form a sort of tribrach. |