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elegiac pentameter

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pen⋅tam⋅e⋅ter

  [pen-tam-i-ter] Prosody
–noun
1. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2. Also called elegiac pentameter. Classical Prosody. a verse consisting of two dactyls, one long syllable, two more dactyls, and another long syllable.
3. unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse.
–adjective
4. consisting of five metrical feet.
Origin:
1540–50; < L pentametrus < Gk pentámetros. See penta-, meter 2

Related forms:
pen⋅tam⋅e⋅trist, noun
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pentameter 
1546, from M.Fr. pentametre, from L. pentameter, from Gk. pentametros (adj.) "having five measures," from pente "five" + metron "meter" (see meter (2)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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