octameter

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw

Proto-Hellenic *oktṓ

Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ)

Ancient Greek ὀκτᾰ- (oktă-)

English octa-

English meter

English octameter

From octa- + meter.

Noun

octameter (plural octameters)

1. A line of verse containing eight metrical feet

Translations

A line of verse

• Czech: oktametr
• Finnish: oktametri (fi), kahdeksanmittainen säe
• French: octosyllabe (fr) m
• Italian: ottametro (it) m
• Portuguese: octâmetro m
• Romanian: octometru n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• actometer