Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a half-foot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A half foot in poetry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetry Half of a
metrical foot .
Etymologies
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Latin semipes, semipedis; prefix semi- half + pes, pedis, a foot.
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