amphimacer: Meaning and Definition of

am•phim•a•cer

Pronunciation: (am-fim'u-sur), [key]
— n. Pros.
  1. 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.
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