Etymograph

English

trimeter

From tri- + meter.

A compound of tri- + meter

Proto-Indo-European *tri- ‘three, threefold’

Proto-Italic *tri- ‘three, tri-’

English tri-

Middle English metere ‘one who measures, measurer’

English meter

Today it means

noun A line in a poem having three metrical feet.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “trimeter”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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