catalectic
英 [,kætə'lektɪk]***美
- 音步不完全的
- 最后音步缺少一音节的
- 此种韵诗
- 不完整诗行
中文词源
- catalectic (adj.)
- 1580s, in a line of verse, "wanting an unaccented syllable in the last foot," from Late Latin catalecticus, from Greek katalektikos "leaving off," from kata- "down" (see cata-) + legein "to leave off, cease from," from PIE *(s)leg- "to be slack, be languid" (see lax). A complete line is said to be acatalectic.
双语例句
- 1. A catalectic tetrameter of iambs marching.
- 节奏完全按四音步句的抑扬格在行进.
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