different between hexameter vs elegiac

English

Alternative forms

• hexametre

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter

Noun

hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)

1. (countable) a line in a poem having six metrical feet
2. (uncountable) a poetic metre in which each line has six feet

Related terms

• hexametral
• hexametric

Translations

See also

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

Anagrams

• hexametre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hexámetros).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/, /??k?sa?.me?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: he?xa?me?ter

Noun

hexameter m (plural hexameters)

1. hexameter

Latin

Etymology

Derived from hexa- +? meter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hek?sa.me.ter/, [h?k?s?äm?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?sa.me.ter/, [???z??m?t??r]

Noun

hexameter m (genitive hexametr?); second declension

1. hexameter

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• 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

English

Etymology

From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin eleg?acus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (elegeiakós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l??d?a??k/, /??l??d?a?æk/
• Rhymes: -a??k, -a?æk

Adjective

elegiac (comparative more elegiac, superlative most elegiac)

1. Of or relating to an elegy.

2. Expressing sorrow or mourning.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

elegiac (plural elegiacs)

1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

Romanian

Etymology

From French élégiaque.

Adjective

elegiac m or n (feminine singular elegiac?, masculine plural elegiaci, feminine and neuter plural elegiace)

1. elegiac

Declension