Phalaecean
noun
Pha·lae·ce·an
¦falə¦sēən
plural -s
: a hendecasyllabic verse in Greek and Latin prosody that is a glyconic with three additional syllables forming a single bacchius or an iambic dipody catalectic : a logaoedic verse of five feet the first of which is indeterminate, the second a dactyl, and the last three trochees
Word History
Etymology
Greek phalaikeion phalaecean (from Phalaikos Phalaecus, Greek poet) + English -an