AMPHIBRACH


Meaning of AMPHIBRACH in English

— amphibrachic , adj.

/am"feuh brak'/ , n. Pros.

a 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.

[ 1580-90; amphibrachus amphíbrachys short before and after ( amphi- AMPHI- + brachýs short); cf. AMPHIMACER ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .