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pentapody Pros.|pɛnˈtæpədɪ|
[ad. Gr. type *πενταποδία, f. πεντάπους of five feet, f. πεντα- + πούς foot: cf. dipody.]
A verse or line consisting of five feet, or a sequence of five feet in a verse.
1864in Webster. 1884Allen J. Hadley's Greek Gramm. §1072 A single foot, taken by itself, is called a monopody; two feet, taken together, a dipody; three feet, a tripody; four, five, six, &c., a tetrapody, pentapody, hexapody, &c. 1891Harper's Mag. Mar. 570/2 Even the pentapody exists in song and dance. Ibid., Hundreds [of folk-songs] in Hungarian music consisting of dipodies, tetrapodies, tripodies, pentapodies, and hexapodies. 1900H. W. Smyth Greek Melic Poets 280 He [Pythermos] borrowed from Sappho the logaoedic pentapody (hendecasyllabus). |