quadrimoraic

English

Etymology

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.

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