logaoedic

See also: logaœdic

English

Alternative forms

• logaedic, logaœdic

Etymology

From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logaoidikós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) +‎ ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós, “-ic”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/

Adjective

logaoedic (not comparable)

1. (poetry) Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.

   Hyponym: Pherecratean

   • 1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Library of Useful Knowledge), volume I, London: printed by William Clowes and Sons for Baldwin and Cradock, page 171:

     Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.

   • 1844, Major, Guide Gr. Trag., second edition, page 159:

     The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.

   • 1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79:

     Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.

   • 1883, Jebb, Œdipus Tyran., Introduction, page 72:

     The essential difference between choreic and logaoedic rhythm is that of ictus.

Translations

of metres rhythmically between speech and song

• French: logaœdique
• German: logaödisch
• Italian: logaedico
• Romanian: logaedic (ro)

Noun

logaoedic (plural logaoedics)

1. (poetry) Any logaoedic verse.

   Hyponym: Pherecratean

   • 1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79:

     Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.

   • 1879, J. W. White, transl., Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21, page 65:

     Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.

Translations

logaoedic verse

• Italian: logaedo m

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Logaœdic, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1 (L), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 399, column 2.