quadrimoraic

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adjective

Having four morae.

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Meanings

adjectivequadrimoraic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesHaving four morae.

    The 'letter' thus corresponds with a mora, and the nouns in question could be termed quadrimoraic.

    1998, Robert R. Ratcliffe, The Broken Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology
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    A syllabic trochee template is simply unable to account for the requirement that p-forms are maximally quadrimoraic.

    1997, Mary Ellen Scullen, French prosodic morphology: a unified account, page 204

    According to Kubozono (2006: 1147—1150), this is the case for 96% of accented trimoraic gairaigo and 70% of accented quadrimoraic gairaigo.

    2011, Mark Irwin, Loanwords in Japanese, page 128

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
tetramoraic

Origin

From quadri- + moraic.

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APA

quadrimoraic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadrimoraic

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“quadrimoraic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadrimoraic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quadrimoraic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quadrimoraic.

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