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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024am•phi•brach (am′fə brak′),USA pronunciation n. [Pros.]- Poetrya trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is short, long, short in quantitative meter, or unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter. Thus, together is an accentual amphibrach.
- Greek amphíbrachys short before and after (amphi- amphi- + brachýs short); compare amphimacer
- Latin amphibrachus
- 1580–90
am′phi•brach′ic, adj. |