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paroemiacs

paroemiacs is the plural of paroemiac.

Meaning of paroemiac

Noun

paroemiac (countable and uncountable, plural paroemiacs)

  1. A catalectic anapestic dimeter.
    • Two successive paroemiacs were admissible only in anapaests of this 'free' or lyric character (n. on 86—120). These paroemiacs are purely spondaic; as 'free' anapaests also admitted the converse license, of resolving the long syllables, except the last, of the paroemiac.1894, Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments - Volume 6, page 20

Questions about paroemiacs

What is paroemiacs the plural of?
Paroemiacs is the plural of paroemiac.

Words near paroemiacs in the dictionary

  1. paroecious
  2. paroecism
  3. paroecy
  4. paroemia
  5. paroemiac
  6. paroemiacs
  7. paroemial
  8. paroemias
  9. paroemiography
  10. paroemiologist
  11. paroemiologists

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