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anapesto (accusative singular anapeston, plural anapestoj, accusative plural anapestojn)

1. (prosody) anapest (metrical foot)

From Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back”, “reversed”).

• IPA^(key): /a.naˈpɛ.sto/
• Rhymes: -ɛsto
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧pè‧sto

anapesto m (plural anapesti)

1. (prosody) anapest

• anapesto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• saponate, senapato

Borrowed from Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back”, “reversed”).

• Hyphenation: a‧na‧pes‧to

anapesto m (plural anapestos)

1. (prosody) anapest (metrical foot consisting of two short syllables and a long one)
2. (prosody) anapest (verse using this meter)

• “anapesto” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin anapaestus, from Ancient Greek ἀνάπαιστος (anápaistos, “struck back, reversed”).

• IPA^(key): /anaˈpesto/ [a.naˈpes.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: a‧na‧pes‧to

anapesto m (plural anapestos)

1. (poetry) anapest (metrical foot)

• “anapesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014