hypercatalexis

== English == === Etymology === Coined in the late 1880s as a back-formation from hypercatalectic, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκαταληκτικός (huperkatalēktikós), from ὑπερ- (huper-, “over”) + καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “incomplete”) === Noun === hypercatalexis (uncountable) (poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse ==== Related terms ==== acatalectic catalectic