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noun
A verse having seven metrical feet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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Synonyms: heptapody, septenar
Antonyms: none provided
History
Learned borrowing from Latin septēnārius (“a verse having seven metrical feet”), nominalized from the masculine forms of septēnārius (“septenary”). Doublet of septenar and septenary.
