Definitions
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- adjective rare, prosody Formed of words
stressed on theirantepenults and rhyming on all three finalsyllables .
Etymologies
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From the Italian sdrucciola (feminine form of sdrucciolo ("slippery”, “stressed on the antepenult")) (rima ("rhyme")); compare the Spanish esdrújulo.
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Examples
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The French, of the other side, hath both the male, as bon: son, and the female, as plaise: taise; but the sdrucciola he hath not.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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The example of the former is buono: suono; of the sdrucciola is femina: semina.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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Lastly, even the very rime itself the Italian cannot put in the last syllable, by the French named the masculine rime, but still in the next to the last, which the French call the female, or the next before that, which the Italians term sdrucciola.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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{177} motion, potion in Sidney's example of sdrucciola are three-syllable words.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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