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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: an‧fí‧bra‧co
Adjective
anfíbraco (feminine anfíbraca, masculine plural anfíbracos, feminine plural anfíbracas)
- (poetry) amphibrachic (consisting of amphibrachs)
- Synonym: anfibráquico
Noun
anfíbraco m (plural anfíbracos)
- (poetry, prosody) amphibrach (metrical foot of three syllables)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin amphibrachys, from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβραχυς (amphíbrakhus, literally “short at both ends”), from ἀμφί (amphí, “around”) + βραχύς (brakhús, “short”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈfibɾako/
- Rhymes: -ibɾako
- Syllabification: an‧fí‧bra‧co
Noun
anfíbraco m (plural anfíbracos)
- (poetry) amphibrach
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