amphimacer
[ am-fim-uh-ser ]
/ æmˈfɪm ə sər /
noun Prosody.
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.
Also called
cre·tic
[kree-tik] /ˈkri tɪk/.
Origin of amphimacer
1580–90; < Latin
amphimacrus < Greek
amphímakros long at both ends. See
amphi-,
macro-; cf.
amphibrach
Words nearby amphimacer
amphigenous,
amphigory,
amphigouri,
amphikaryon,
amphilochus,
amphimacer,
amphimarus,
amphimixis,
amphinome,
amphinomus,
amphion
British Dictionary definitions for amphimacer
Word Origin for amphimacer
C16: from Latin
amphimacrus, from Greek
amphimakros both ends being long, from
amphi- +
makros long