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amphimacer

[ am-fim-uh-ser ]

noun

, Prosody.
  1. a trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is long, short, long in quantitative meter, or stressed, unstressed, stressed in accentual meter, as anodyne, an accentual amphimacer.

amphimacer

/ æmˈfɪməsə /

noun

  1. prosody another word for cretic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of amphimacer1

1580–90; < Latin amphimacrus < Greek amphímakros long at both ends. See amphi-, macro-; amphibrach
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Word History and Origins

Origin of amphimacer1

C16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long

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