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anapest

Meaningstruck back

Common meaning: metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PU‘strike’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 210, p. 737 · scan
  2. Greekanapaistos‘struck back’source
  3. Latinmeaning shiftsstruck back → metrical footanapestus‘metrical foot’source
  4. Englishanapest‘metrical foot with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek anapaistos ‘struck back’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry ANAPEST, p. 23 · dictionary scan

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