Hipponactean

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.
    — We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Relating to or characteristic of the Ancient Greek poet Hipponax; (specifically) using choliambic verse.
    — The lines are vigorous and full of anger, and they be betray none of the usual Hipponactean buffoonery (unless the reference to 'eating slavish bread' echoes some previous abuse on the score of gluttony).

词形变化

more Hipponactean comparative most Hipponactean superlative Hipponacteans plural

词源

词源 1
From Hipponax + -ean.
词源 2
From Hipponax + -ean.
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