名詞 catalectic:

1. (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot

形容詞 catalectic:

1. (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot

cat.a.lec.tic

adj.（形容詞）
Lacking one or more syllables, especially in the final foot. Used of verse.
最后音步缺少一個音節(jié)的：缺少一個或多個音節(jié)的，尤指在最后一個音步中。用于詩歌中

來源：
Late Latin catalôcticus
后期拉丁語 catalôcticus
from Greek katalôktikos
源自 希臘語 katalôktikos
from katalôgein [to leave off]
源自 katalôgein [使停止]
kata- [intensive pref.] * see cata-
kata- [強調性前綴] *參見 cata-
lôgein [to cease, terminate] * see slôg-
lôgein [停止，終結] *參見 slôg-