AMPHIBRACH


Meaning of AMPHIBRACH in English

[am.phi.brach] n [L amphibrachys, fr. Gk, lit., short at both ends, fr. amphi- + brachys short--more at brief] (1589): a metrical foot consisting of a long syllable between two short syllables in quantitative verse or of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables in accentual verse "romantic is an accentual ~" -- am.phi.brach.ic adj

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