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pentameter

Today it means: A line in a poem having five metrical feet. Full definition →

Middle French pentamètre

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Middle French · derived frompentamètre
English todaypentameter

PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle French pentamètre, by surface analysis, penta- + meter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.