elegiambic
/ˌɛlɪdʒʌɪˈambɪk/Classical Prosody
adjective
Of verse: written in a metre consisting of half an elegiac pentameter, followed by an iambic dimeter; designating this metre.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), lexicographer and schoolmaster. From post-classical Latin elegiambus, noun + -ic; compare iambic.
- morning prayer
- morning-red
- morning room
- morning service
- morning sickness
- Morningside
- morning sitting
- morning star
- morning's visit
- morning tea
- morning-tide
- morning visit
- morning visitor
- morning watch
- Moro
- Moroccan
- morocco
- morocco-bound
- Morocco plum
- morocoy
- moroire
- morology
- Morolong
- moron
- Moro National Liberation Front