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anapaest
"A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable", Late 16th century: via
Latin
from Greek
anapaistos
'reversed', from
ana-
'back' +
paiein
'strike' (because it is the reverse of a dactyl).