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pentameter (adj.)
1540s, from Middle French
pentametre
, from Latin
pentameter
, from Greek
pentametros
(adj.) "having five measures," from
pente
"five" (see
five
) +
metron
"measure" (see
meter
(n.2)). As a noun from 1580s.
