different between batrachomyomachian vs batrachomyomachy

English

Etymology

From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek ????????, frog, ???, mouse, and ????, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species.

Adjective

batrachomyomachian (comparative more batrachomyomachian, superlative most batrachomyomachian)

1. (rare) Petty (chiefly of a quarrel).
   • 1933, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Earl Leslie Griggs, Philip Hamilton McMillan, Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     ...sounded throughout to my own ears as a Batrachomyomachian battle between the croaks and the squeaks...

Translations

English

Etymology

From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek ????????, frog, ???, mouse, and ????, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species.

Noun

batrachomyomachy (plural batrachomyomachies)

1. A petty quarrel.

Related terms

• batrachomyomachian
• batrachomyomachize