anapest
英 美['ænə,pɛst]
- n. （美）抑抑扬格
英英释义
- 1. a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables
中文词源
anapest 抑抑扬格
前缀ana-, 向上，向后。pest, 击，打，砍，同词根put, 见amputate, 截肢。应用于语言学，回砍。
英文词源
- anapest (n.)
- also anapaest, "two short syllables followed by a long one," 1670s, from Latin anapestus, from Greek anapaistos "struck back, rebounding," verbal adjective from anapaiein "to strike back," from ana- "back" (see ana-) + paiein "to strike," from PIE *pau- "to cut, strike, stamp" (see pave). So called because it reverses the dactyl.