Relating to or composed of dispondees; a metrical pattern in classical poetry.
From 'dispondee' (a metrical foot) + the adjective suffix '-ic.' The underlying 'dispondee' comes from Greek 'dis-' (twice) + 'spondee' (a metrical foot of two long syllables).
Dispondaic meter is so rare in actual classical poetry that most classics professors rarely discuss it—it's basically the lexical equivalent of a musical time signature that almost nobody ever actually uses!
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