Found 2 items, similar to iambi.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: iambi
iamb
n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn:
iambus]
[also:
iambi (pl)]
iambi
See
iamb
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Iambi
Iambus
\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 [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by
an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under
Iambic, n.
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