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iambic

Meaningiambic verse

Common meaning: using a rhythm with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Journey through time

  1. Greekiambos‘iambic verse’source
  2. Latiniambicus‘relating to an iamb’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsrelating to an iamb → using a rhythm with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed oneiambic‘using a rhythm with an unstressed syllable 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 iambos ‘iambic verse’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry IAMBIC, p. 279 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • iambos Greek “iambic verse”

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