• Hypercatalexis

    Origin

    Coined in the late 1880s as Back-formation from {{3}}, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek (hyperkatalēktikos), from (hyper) + (katalēktikos, "incomplete")

    Full definition of hypercatalexis

    Noun

    hypercatalexis

    1. (poetry) Adding one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse
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