phalaecean

phalaecean
\\|falə|sēən\ noun (-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Greek phalaikeion phalaecean (from Phalaikos Phalaecus, Greek poet) + English -an
: a hendecasyllabic verse in Greek and Latin prosody that is a glyconic with three additional syllables forming a single bacchius or an iambic dipody catalectic : a logaoedic verse of five feet the first of which is indeterminate, the second a dactyl, and the last three trochees

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