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71paroemia — pəˈrēmēə noun ( s) Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek paroimia proverb, maxim, incidental remark, from para beside + oimos way, path, path or strain of song; probably akin to Latin vis strength, force more at vim : a rhetorical proverb …
72phalaecean — |falə|sēən noun ( s) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Greek phalaikeion phalaecean (from Phalaikos Phalaecus, Greek poet) + English an : a hendecasyllabic verse in Greek and Latin prosody that is a glyconic with three additional syllables… …
73septenarius — n. (pl. septenarii) Prosody a verse of seven feet, esp. a trochaic or iambic tetrameter catalectic. Etymology: L f. septeni distributive of septem seven …
74sotadean verse — noun : a catalectic tetrameter of major ionics having the normal form ˘˘] ˘˘] ˘˘] ˘̵ …
75trithemimer — ˌtrithəˈmimə(r) noun ( s) Etymology: modification (influenced by trit ) of New Latin trihemimeris, from tri + hemi + meris (from Greek meris part) more at merit : a group of …
76archilochian — I. |ärkə̇|lōkēən adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Archilochus, 7th century B.C. Greek poet (from Latin, from Greek Archilochos) + English ian 1. a …
77galliambic — I. ˌgalēˈambik noun ( s) Etymology: Latin galliambus, a song of the priests of Cybele, ancient nature goddess of Anatolia (from Gallus, eunuch priest of Cybele from Greek Gallos + Latin iambus) + English ic : a galliambic verse or meter II …
78Pher|e|cra|te|an — «FEHR uh kruh TEE uhn», adjective, noun. Ancient Prosody. –adj. noting or having to do with a logaoedic tripody, catalectic or acatalectic, whose first or second foot is a dactyl, the others being trochees. –n. a Pherecratean tripody or verse.… …
