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ancipites

ancipites is the plural of anceps.

Meaning of anceps

Noun

anceps (plural ancipites)

  1. (Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.

Phrases with ancipites

Questions about ancipites

What is ancipites the plural of?
Ancipites is the plural of anceps.

Words near ancipites in the dictionary

  1. ancilliary
  2. ancillula
  3. ancillulas
  4. ancipital
  5. ancipitally
  6. ancipites
  7. ancipitous
  8. Ancira
  9. Anciras
  10. ancistrocladine
  11. ancistroid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ancipites (page history and authors); anceps (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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