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Noun Concept
Categories: Metrical feet, Articles with short description
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dactyl  Dactycl  –◡◡
EN
A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables WordNet 3.0
English:
poetry
foot
Definitions
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Sources
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A metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A dactyl is a foot in poetic meter. Wikipedia
A metrical unit of verse Wikipedia Disambiguation
Metrical foot Wikidata
A type of meter consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables in accentual verse or one long syllable followed by two short syllables in quantitative verse. OmegaWiki
A poetical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. Wiktionary
Poetical foot of three syllables. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
metrical foot
PART OF
double dactyl
dactylic tetrameter
dactylic hexameter
Spanish hexameter
hemiepes
DERIVATION
dactylic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Encyclopedic Lexicon
Riemann's Music Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
dactyly
NAMED AFTER
finger
OPPOSITE OF
anapest
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
dactyl
Wikipedia
EN
dactyl (poetry)
Wikidata
EN
dactyl
Wiktionary
EN
dactyl
OmegaWiki
EN
dactyl
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Dactycl (poetry), Dactyl (foot)
Wikidata Alias
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