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Definitions for Cretic
[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.
[2] prosody a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first long, the second short, and the third long (– ◡ –) Also called: amphimacer Compare amphibrach
[3] prosody another word for cretic
Words nearby Cretic
amphimaceramphigenous, amphigory, amphigouri, amphikaryon, amphilochus, amphimacer, amphimarus, amphimixis, amphinome, amphinomus, amphion
Origin of Cretic
amphimacer1580–90; < Latin amphimacrus < Greek amphímakros long at both ends. See amphi-, macro-; cf. amphibrach
Word origin for Cretic
amphimacerC16: from Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros both ends being long, from amphi- + makros long