EPITRITUS, in prosody, a foot consisting of three long syllables and one short. Of these, grammarians reckon four kinds: the first consisting of an iambus and spondee, as sālūtātēs; the second, of a trocheus and spondee, as cōnētātī; the third, of a spondee and an iambus, as cōmmūnīcāns; and the fourth, of a spondee and trocheus, as īncāntārē. See the articles SPONDEUS, TROCHEUS, &c.