hexameter
See also: Hexameter
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- + meter.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: he‧xa‧me‧ter
Noun edit
hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)
- (countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
- 1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published 1965, →OCLC, page vi:
- The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.
- (uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.
Synonyms edit
- sexameter (rare)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
line in a poem
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poetic metre
See also edit
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hexameter m (plural hexameters)
- hexameter
- Wie ook deze discours snapt, zal weten dat mij slechts dactylisch hexameter vertrouwd is en niets anders, geef me toch vrijheid!
- Who also understands this exposition, will know that only dactylic hexameter is familiar to me and nothing else, give me liberty!
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hekˈsa.me.ter/, [hɛkˈs̠ämɛt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsa.me.ter/, [eɡˈzäːmet̪er]
Noun edit
hexameter m (genitive hexametrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | hexameter | hexametrī |
Genitive | hexametrī | hexametrōrum |
Dative | hexametrō | hexametrīs |
Accusative | hexametrum | hexametrōs |
Ablative | hexametrō | hexametrīs |
Vocative | hexameter | hexametrī |
References edit
- “hexameter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hexameter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hexameter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.