Word: Iambus
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century: Latin, from Greek iambos ‘iambus, lampoon’, from iaptein ‘attack verbally’ (because the iambic trimeter was first used by Greek satirists)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ʌɪˈambəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
Short Definition:metrical foot consisting of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable
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