单词 | perissosyllabic |
释义 | perissosyllabicadj. Prosody. rare. Of a metre or a line of verse: having a greater number of syllables than is normal for a particular metre. perissosyllabic hexameter, a hexameter modified by the substitution of three trochees, or two trochees and a spondee, for the last two feet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > hexameter > types of hexameter senarius1540 senary1579 senarian1803 pythiambic1832 perissosyllabic hexameter1889 1889 Cent. Dict. at Hexameter Perissosyllabic hexameter, in anc. pros., a verse consisting of a dactylic tetrameter and an ithyphallic..; a greater Archilochian. It was regarded by some ancient writers as a variation from the heroic hexameter made by inserting a redundant syllable (whence the epithet perissosyllabic) before the last syllable of the fifth foot in its dactylic form. 1905 Univ. of Pennsylvania Record of Class of 1905 348 Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper thoughtfully remarks, ‘Learning to bear up cheerfully under the burden of a perissosyllabic cognomen.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1889 |
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