Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a measure consisting of but one foot: opposed to dipody. See
measure , 11.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A measure of but a single foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetry A
measure of a singlemetrical foot .
Etymologies
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mono- + Ancient Greek ποδός (podos) (genitive of πούς (pous, "foot")) + -y.
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