alcaic

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Definition of alcaic in English English dictionary

pertaining to Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of around 600BC; especially, of a verse meter in a four-line stanza which he supposedly invented

alcaic verses

verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus

One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b

A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus

Related Terms

Alcaic verse

A Greek meter, supposedly invented by Alcaeus; consisting of combinations of spondee, iambs and dactyls

alcaics

plural of alcaic

Hyphenation

Al·ca·ic

Etymology

() From Latin alcaicus, from Greek αλκαικος, from Αλκαιος ‘Alcaeus’.