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scazon

English edit

Etymology edit

Latin scāzon, from Ancient Greek σκάζων (skázōn), from σκάζω (skázō, “I limp”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈskeɪzɒn/, /ˈskeɪzən/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun edit

scazon (plural scazons or scazontes)

  1. A limping satiric meter in classical verse.
  2. A iambic trimeter ending with a trochee or spondee, a limping iamb.

See also edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From the Ancient Greek σκάζων (skázōn, “limping”), the present active participle of σκάζω (skázō, “I limp”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

scazōn m (genitive scazontis or scazontos); third declension

  1. scazon (an iambic trimeter, with a spondee or trochee in the last foot)
    • AD 86–103, Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammaton, book I, epigram xcvi, lines 1–3:
      Si non molestum est teque non piget, scazon, // Nostro rogamus pauca verba Materno // Dicas in aurem sic ut audiat solus.
    • ibidem, book VII, epigram xxvi, line 1 and 10 (identical):
      Apollinarem conveni meum, Scazon.
    • AD 103–107, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae, book V, letter x: “C. Plinius Suetonio Tranquillo suo s.”, § 2:
      Sum et ipse in edendo haesitator, tu tamen meam quoque cunctationem tarditatemque vicisti. Proinde aut rumpe iam moras aut cave ne eosdem istos libellos, quos tibi hendecasyllabi nostri blanditiis elicere non possunt, convicio scazontes extorqueant.

Declension edit

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, variant with nominative singular in -ōn).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scazōn scazontēs
Genitive scazontis
scazontos 		scazontum
scazontium
Dative scazontī scazontibus
Accusative scazonta scazontēs
scazontās
Ablative scazonte scazontibus
Vocative scazōn scazontēs

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

  • → English: scazon

References edit

  • “scāzon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scāzōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,400/2.
  • “scazōn” on page 1,700/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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