Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient prosody, a syllable containing two moræ or units of time. See
disemic .
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Note that the duration indicated is that of the syllable, not of the pitch, so that a "diseme" may include two pitches (as in the second line) and the "triseme" one, two, or three (as at the end of each line).
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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