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单词 amphimacer
释义

amphimacer

[ am-fim-uh-ser ]
/ æmˈfɪm ə sər /

noun Prosody.

a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is long, short, long in quantitative meter, or stressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter, as anodyne, an accentual amphimacer.
Also called cre·tic [kree-tik] /ˈkri tɪk/ .

Origin of amphimacer

1580–90; <Latin amphimacrus<Greek amphímakros long at both ends. See amphi-, macro-; cf. amphibrach

Words nearby amphimacer

amphigenous, amphigory, amphigouri, amphikaryon, Amphilochus, amphimacer, Amphimarus, amphimixis, Amphinome, Amphinomus, Amphion
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British Dictionary definitions for amphimacer

amphimacer
/ (æmˈfɪməsə) /

noun

prosody another word for cretic

Word Origin for amphimacer

C16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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