/ahr'keuh loh"kee euhn/ , adj. Pros.
of or pertaining to a form of poetic meter devised by the Greek Archilochus in which various types of meter are combined in the same line or couplet, as a dactylic tetrameter plus a trochaic tripody.
[ 1745-55; archilóchei ( os ) (equiv. to Archíloch ( os ) ARCHILOCHUS + -eios adj. suffix) + -AN ]