pyrrhics
Meaning of pyrrhics
plural noun
a metrical foot of two short or unaccented syllables.
early 17th century: via Latin from Greek purrhikhios (pous) ‘pyrrhic (foot)’, the metre of a song accompanying a war dance, named after Purrhikhos, inventor of the dance.
Information about pyrrhics
- It is a name.
- The singular form of pyrrhics is: pyrrhic.
- Languages in which pyrrhics is used:
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Hyphenation of pyrrhics
pyrrhics
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- pyrrhics is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with pyrrhics
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