diiamb

diiamb
Etymology: Late Latin diiambus, from Greek diiambos, from di- + iambos iamb
variant of diamb

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  • diiamb — diiámb s. m. (sil. di iamb), pl. diiámbi Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  DIIÁMB s. m. dipodie iambică. (< di1 + iamb) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • Diiamb — Di i*amb , n. A diiambus. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Foot (prosody) — The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of… …   Wikipedia

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