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“amphibrach”
1. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables: An amphibrach can be exemplified by the word remember in which the middle syllable is stressed. (re- mind-er)..
2. A trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is short, long, short in quantitative meter, or unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter: The word "together" is an example of an accentual amphibrach.
2. A trisyllabic foot, the arrangement of the syllables of which is short, long, short in quantitative meter, or unstressed, stressed, unstressed in accentual meter: The word "together" is an example of an accentual amphibrach.
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ampho-, amph-, amphi-
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brachyo-, brachy-, -brachy, -brach
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