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 spondees, as salūtāntēs; the second, of a trocheus and spondees, as concitāntīs; the third of a spondee and an iambus, as communicāntīs; and the fourth, of a spondee and trocheus, as incantāntīs. See the articles Spondeus, Trocheus, &c.