tetrameter

English

Alternative forms

• tetrametre

Etymology

From tetra- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: te‧tra‧me‧ter

Noun

tetrameter (countable and uncountable, plural tetrameters)

1. (poetry) A line in a poem having four metrical feet.
2. (prosody) A poetic metre in which each line has four feet.

Derived terms

• iambic tetrameter

Translations

a line in a poem having four metrical feet (poetry)

• Albanian: tetrametër m
• Catalan: tetrámetro m
• Danish: tetrameter
• Finnish: tetrametri (fi)
• French: tétramètre (fr)
• Galician: tetrâmetro m
• German: Tetrameter (de) n
• Greek: τετράμετρο (el) m (tetrámetro)
• Portuguese: tetrâmetro m
• Romanian: tetrametru (ro) m
• Russian: тетра́метр (ru) m (tetrámetr)
• Spanish: tetrámetro m
• Swedish: tetrameter
• Vietnamese: câu thơ tứ bộ vi

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• tetrametre