| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| amphimacer |
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| SYLLABICATION: | am·phim·a·cer |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m-f m  -sr |
| NOUN: | A trisyllabic metrical foot having an unaccented or short syllable between two accented or long syllables, as in Peter Pan. Also called cretic. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin amphimacrus, from Greek amphimakros : amphi-, amphi- + makros, long; see m k- in Appendix I.
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