A cretic (also Cretic, amphimacer and sometimes paeon diagyios) is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long. In Greek poetry, the cretic was usually a form of paeonic or aeolic verse. However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and t...
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Greek and Latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, and long syllables.
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• (n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).
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Greek and latin metrical foot consisting of long, short, and long syllables.
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Cre'tic (krē'tĭk)
noun [ Latin
Creticus (sc.
pes foot), Greek
Kritiko`s (sc.
poy`s foot), prop., a Cretan (metrical) foot.]
(Gr. & Lat. Pros.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- ⌣ -).
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