Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a double spondee; two spondees regarded as forming one compound foot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gr. � Lat. Pros.) A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A double
spondee ; ametrical foot consisting of four longsyllables .
Etymologies
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Latin dispondeus, from Ancient Greek.
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