paeon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a metrical foot of four syllables with one long or stressed syllable and three short or unstressed syllables

   The class marked the stressed syllable in each paeon before reading the verse aloud.

From Latin paeon, from Greek paion or paian, a name connected with a hymn to Apollo. The prosodic term came to denote a four-syllable foot whose single prominent syllable may occupy any of four positions.

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