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pentametro

pentameter

noun pen-TAH-meh-troh Rare
Arts & Culture Literature

Origin: From Greek pentametros, 'having five measures'.

Usage Note

Pentametro is a verse line of five metrical feet, central to classical Latin poetry in the elegiac couplet (distico elegiaco), where a hexameter is paired with a pentametro. In Italian prosody, the term is used both for classical imitations and for analysis of Latin verse; it rarely appears in purely Italian syllabic poetry.

Examples

"Il distico è formato da esametro e pentametro."

Natural Translation

The couplet is made up of a hexameter and a pentameter.

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