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Porson (iou)



Porson noun. L19.
[Richard Porson (1759-1808), English classical scholar who formulated the rule.]
Porson's law, Porson's rule, the metrical rule that in a Greek tragic iambic trimeter where the last word forms a cretic, the preceding syllable is short.
Porsonian adjective of or characteristic of Porson, his work, or a font of Greek type named after him M19.