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Word: Dactyl
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek daktulos, literally ‘finger’ (the three bones of the finger corresponding to the three syllables)
ˈdakt(ɪ)l
a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
Short Definition:metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
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