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CATALECTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("catalectic" is a kind of...):
line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)
Domain category:
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
Derivation:
catalectic ((verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot)
catalexis (the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot
Classified under:
Antonym:
acatalectic ((verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot)
hypercatalectic ((verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot)
Derivation:
catalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot)
catalexis (the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse)
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