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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | Copyright

anapaest (pros.) the foot ⌣⌣–. XVII (XVI in L. form). — L. anapæstus — Gr. anápaistos reversed.
So anapaestic XVII.

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