— 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 ]