quadrimoraic

English

Etymology

From quadri- +‎ moraic.

Adjective

quadrimoraic (not comparable)

1. (phonology) Having four morae.
   • 1997, Mary Ellen Scullen, French prosodic morphology: a unified account, page 204:

     A syllabic trochee template is simply unable to account for the requirement that p-forms are maximally quadrimoraic.

   • 1998, Robert R. Ratcliffe, The Broken Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and analogy in non-concatenative morphology:

     The 'letter' thus corresponds with a mora, and the nouns in question could be termed quadrimoraic.

   • 2011, Mark Irwin, Loanwords in Japanese, page 128:

     According to Kubozono (2006: 1147—1150), this is the case for 96% of accented trimoraic gairaigo and 70% of accented quadrimoraic gairaigo.

Derived terms

• quadrimoraicity