Definition of Iambos
Iambus, a metrical foot, consisting of two syllables, of which the
first is short and the second long, or in which the stress is on the
second.
- Wikipedia
I*am"bus (?), n.; pl. L.
Iambi (#), E. Iambuses (#). [L.
iambus, Gr. &?;; prob. akin to &?; to throw, assail (the
iambus being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere
to throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.) A
foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in
ămāns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by
an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under
Iambic, n.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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