tribrach
/ˈtɹʌɪbɹak/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables."
- "We may vse a Spondee or Iambick and sometime a Tribrack or Dactile."
- "Tribrachus or Tribrachys, (Gr[eek]) a Foot in Greek and Latin Verſe, conſiſting of three ſhort Syllables; as Pŏpŭlŭs."
- "Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable ⏑́⏑⏑ is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee."
- "If the range of pure tribrachic measure, or of tribrachs intermingled with trochees, appears much wider in our song-books than in volumes of poetry written to be read."
- "The plain tribrach is frequent in every one’s reading."
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From the Latin tribrachys, from the Ancient Greek τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς (trĭ́brăkhŭs), from τρῐ- (trĭ-, “tri-”) + βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s, “short”). Compare the French tribraque.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: τρῐ, tri
- Root: *mreǵʰ-, tribrachys, τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς, βρᾰχῑ́ων
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɹaɪbɹæk/
Inflected Forms
tribrachs (plural)
tribracchus (alternative)
tribrack (alternative)
tribrachus (alternative)
tribrachys (alternative)
tribrac (alternative)