amphibrachys

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

amphĭbrăchys, yos, m., = ἀμφίβραχυς (short before and after); in metre,

the foot ⏑ – ⏑, Quint. 9, 4, 82 (later gramm. sometimes give the word the Latin ending, amphibrachus; cf. Quint. 9, 4, 105).