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ἀμφίβραχυς?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: amphibrachys

Principal Part: ἀμφίβραχυς ἀμφιβράχεως

Structure: ἀμφιβραχυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. (poetry) amphibrach

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀμφίβραχυς ἀμφιβράχει ἀμφιβράχεις
Genitive ἀμφιβράχεως ἀμφιβράχοιν ἀμφιβράχεων
Dative ἀμφιβράχει ἀμφιβράχοιν ἀμφιβράχεσι(ν)
Accusative ἀμφίβραχυν ἀμφιβράχει ἀμφιβράχεις
Vocative ἀμφίβραχυ ἀμφιβράχει ἀμφιβράχεις

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ δ ἐκ μακρᾶς καὶ δυεῖν βραχειῶν μέσην μὲν λαβὼν τὴν μακρὰν ἀμφίβραχυς ὠνόμασται, καὶ οὐ σφόδρα τῶν εὐσχήμων ἐστὶ ῥυθμῶν ἀλλὰ διακέκλασταί τε καὶ πολὺ τὸ θῆλυ καὶ ἀηδὲς ἔχει, οἱά῀ ἐστι ταυτί Ιἄκχε θρίαμβε, σὺ τῶνδε χοραγέ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1722)
  • τί οὖν ἐκώλυε καλὴν ἁρμονίαν εἶναι λέξεως, ἐν ᾗ μήτε πυρρίχιός ἐστι ποὺς μήτε ἰαμβικὸς μήτε ἀμφίβραχυς μήτε τῶν χορείων ἢ τροχαίων μηδείς· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1852)

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