Example: In Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream the fairy speaks in cretic dimeter beginning: "Over hill, Over Dale." (Thus the line has six syllables and naturally is spoken as "OV-er HILL/OV-er DALE.")
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cretic — CRÉTIC, Ă adj. ritm cretic = ritm ternar, inversul amfibrahului, în care silaba de la mijloc este neaccentuată. (< fr. crétique, lat. creticus) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
Cretic — Cre tic (kr[=e] t[i^]k), n. [L. Creticus (sc. pes foot), Gr. 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 ( [crescent] ). Bentley. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cretic — Metrical feet Disyllables ˘ ˘ pyrrhus, dibrach ˘ ¯ iamb … Wikipedia
cretic — cre·tic (krēʹtĭk) n. See amphimacer. [Latin Crēticus, of Crete, Cretic foot, from Crēta Crete.] * * * … Universalium
Cretic (1903) — Cretic p1 Schiffsdaten … Deutsch Wikipedia
CRETIC — Cretici … Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions
cretic — [ kri:tɪk] noun Prosody a metrical foot containing one short or unstressed syllable between two long or stressed ones. Origin C16: from L. Creticus, from Gk Krētikos of Crete … English new terms dictionary
cretic — cre·tic … English syllables
cretic — n. amphimacer … Dictionary of difficult words
cretic — n. Prosody a foot containing one short or unstressed syllable between two long or stressed ones. Etymology: L Creticus f. Gk Kretikos (as CRETAN) … Useful english dictionary
