Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A syllable that can be either short or long.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Greek and Latin meter
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Latin anceps (literally “double-headed”).
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
