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hypercatalectic

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete line of verse or in a metrical foot.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In prosody, having an additional syllable or half-foot (thesis or arsis) after the last complete dipody: as, a hypercatalectic colon or verse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Pros.) Having a syllable or two beyond measure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Which has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot
  • adjective (verse) having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of a metrically complete verse or in a metrical foot

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Greek huperkatalēktikos : huper-, hyper- + katalēktikos, incomplete; see catalectic.]

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Recorded from circa 1700; from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from the root of the equivalent Ancient Greek (hyperkatalēktikos) (itself from hyper- + (katalēktikos) 'incomplete') + -icus '-ic'.

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