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archilochian

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Ar⋅chi⋅lo⋅chi⋅an

  [ahr-kuh-loh-kee-uhn]
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–adjective Prosody.
of or pertaining to a form of poetic meter devised by the Greek Archilochus in which various types of meter are combined in the same line or couplet, as a dactylic tetrameter plus a trochaic tripody.
Origin:
1745–55; < Gk archilóchei(os) (equiv. to Archíloch(os) Archilochus + -eios adj. suffix) + -an
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