anapest

anapest
Synonyms and related words:
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee

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  • anapest — ANAPÉST, anapeşti, s.m. (În versificaţia greco latină) Unitate metrică formată din două silabe scurte urmate de una lungă; (în metrica modernă) unitate metrică alcătuită din două silabe neaccentuate urmate de una accentuată. – Din fr. anapeste,… …   Dicționar Român

  • Anapest — An a*pest, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e., a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; ? back + ? to strike.] 1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • anapest — (n.) also anapaest, two short syllables followed by a long one, 1670s, from L. anapestus, from Gk. anapaistos struck back, rebounding, verbal adjective from anapaiein to strike back, from ana back (see ANA (Cf. ana )) + paiein to strike, from PIE …   Etymology dictionary

  • anapest — anàpest m DEFINICIJA jez. knjiž. u metrici, trosložna stopa od dva kratka i trećim dugim ili naglašenim slogom ETIMOLOGIJA grč. anápaistos: udaren natrag, preokrenut …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • anapest — or anapaest [an′ə pest΄] n. [L anapaestus < Gr anapaistos < ana , back + paiein, to strike: so called from reversing the dactyl] 1. a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of two short syllables followed by a long one, or, as… …   English World dictionary

  • anapest — noun Etymology: Latin anapaestus, from Greek anapaistos, literally, struck back (a dactyl reversed), from ana + paistos, verbal of paiein to strike Date: circa 1678 a metrical foot consisting of two short syllables followed by one long syllable… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • anapest — anapestic, anapaestic, adj. anapestically, anapaestically, adv. /an euh pest /, n. Pros. a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for… …   Universalium

  • anapest — noun /ˈænəpɛst/ a) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g the word velveteen ). b) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the …   Wiktionary

  • anapest — a|na|pest Mot Agut Nom masculí …   Diccionari Català-Català

  • anapést — s. m., pl. anapéşti …   Romanian orthography

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