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iambic

English

Alternative forms

  • ïambic (rare)
  • iambical
  • iambick (obsolete)
  • jambic

Etymology

From Middle French ïambique, from Late Latin iambicus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (iambikós), from ?????? (íambos) + -???? (-ikós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a??æmb?k/
  • Rhymes: -æmb?k

Adjective

iambic (comparative more iambic, superlative most iambic)

  1. (prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from 16th c.]

Derived terms

  • iambic pentameter
  • iambic tetrameter
  • iambically

Translations

Noun

iambic (plural iambics)

  1. (prosody) An iamb; a line or group of lines of iambs.

Antonyms

  • trochaic

Anagrams

  • cimbia

Romanian

Etymology

From French iambique, from Latin iambicus.

Adjective

iambic m or n (feminine singular iambic?, masculine plural iambici, feminine and neuter plural iambice)

  1. iambic

Declension

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scazon

English

Etymology

Latin sc?zon, from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáz?n), from ????? (skáz?, I limp).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ske?z?n/

Noun

scazon (plural scazons or scazontes)

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

See also

  • choliamb
  • Choliamb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ?????? (skáz?n, limping), the present active participle of ????? (skáz?, I limp).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?skaz.zo?n/, [?s?käz?d??z?o?n]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?skad.d?zon/, [?sk?d???z??n]

Noun

scaz?n 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

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

Synonyms

  • (scazon): ch?liambus

Descendants

  • English: scazon

References

  • sc?zon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sc?z?n in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,400/2
  • scaz?n” on page 1,700/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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