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iambic shortenings

iambic shortenings is the plural of iambic shortening.

Meaning of iambic shortening

Noun

iambic shortening (countable and uncountable, plural iambic shortenings)

  1. In Latin, the shortening of an etymologically long final vowel, in a two-syllable word where the first vowel is also short. It tended to persist in uninflected words like bene, but was levelled out in favour of inflectional regularity in other words.

Questions about iambic shortenings

What is iambic shortenings the plural of?
Iambic shortenings is the plural of iambic shortening.

Words near iambic shortenings in the dictionary

  1. iambi
  2. iambic
  3. iambic pentameter
  4. iambic pentameters
  5. iambic shortening
  6. iambic shortenings
  7. iambic tetrameter
  8. iambical
  9. iambically
  10. iambick
  11. iambicks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iambic shortenings (page history and authors); iambic shortening (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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