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Word: Amphibrach
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century (originally in the Latin forms amphibrachus, amphibrachys): via Latin from Greek amphibrakhus ‘short at both ends’
ˈamfɪbrak
a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) a long syllable between two short syllables.
Short Definition:metrical foot consisting of stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables or in Greek and Latin
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