bacchius

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bacchius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Noun

bacchius (plural bacchii)

  1. (prosody) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

References

  • bacchius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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