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quadrimoraic

quadrimoraic adjective: having four morae.

Adjective

quadrimoraic (not comparable)

  1. Having four morae.
    • A syllabic trochee template is simply unable to account for the requirement that p-forms are maximally quadrimoraic.1997, Mary Ellen Scullen, French prosodic morphology: a unified account, page 204
    • The 'letter' thus corresponds with a mora, and the nouns in question could be termed quadrimoraic.1998, Robert R. Ratcliffe, The Broken Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology

Origin of quadrimoraic

From quadri- + moraic.

Words formed from quadrimoraic

Questions about quadrimoraic

What does quadrimoraic mean?
Quadrimoraic means having four morae.
What part of speech is quadrimoraic?
Quadrimoraic is an adjective.

Words near quadrimoraic in the dictionary

  1. quadrimodal
  2. quadrimodality
  3. quadrimodular
  4. quadrimolecular
  5. quadrimonthly
  6. quadrimoraic
  7. quadrimoraicity
  8. quadrin
  9. quadrinate
  10. quadrinational
  11. quadrine

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