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Word: Amphimacer
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century; earliest use found in George Puttenham (1529–?1591), writer and literary critic. From post-classical Latin amphimacer, variant of classical Latin amphimacros metrical foot consisting of a short between two long syllables from Hellenistic Greek ἀμϕίμακρος metrical foot consisting of a short between two long syllables, literally long at both ends from ancient Greek ἀμϕι- + μακρός long
In classical prosody: a foot consisting of one short syllable between two long syllables. Also (in modern prosody): a foot consisting of one unstressed syllable between two stressed syllables.
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