ἴαμβος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἴαμβος
ἰάμβου
Structure:
ἰαμβ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: From
i)a/ptw 2, because iambics were first used by the satiric poets Archilochus and Hipponax; criminosi iambi, Hor.
Declension
Second declension
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.
- βραχειῶν γὰρ γινομένων εἰ δύο τὰσ ἁπασῶν τελευταίασ συλλαβὰσ εἰσ μακρὰν ποιήσει τισ, ὁ Ἱππώνακτοσ ἰάμβοσ ἔσται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 62 1:13)
- ὁ δ’ ἐκ βραχείασ τε καὶ μακρᾶσ συγκείμενοσ ἐὰν μὲν τὴν ἡγουμένην λάβῃ βραχεῖαν, ἰάμβοσ καλεῖται, καὶ ἔστιν οὐκ ἀγεννήσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1713)
- "ἰάμβοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ διαλέκτων γράφει οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 20 1:1)
- ἄλλοι δὲ Τόρηβον πρῶτον τῇ ἁρμονίᾳ χρήσασθαι, καθάπερ Διονύσιοσ ὁ Ιἄμβοσ ἱστορεῖ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 15 4:1)
- τῶν δὲ ῥυθμῶν ὁ μὲν ἡρῷοσ σεμνῆσ ἀλλ’ οὐ λεκτικῆσ ἁρμονίασ δεόμενοσ, ὁ δ’ ἰάμβοσ αὐτή ἐστιν ἡ λέξισ ἡ τῶν πολλῶν διὸ μάλιστα πάντων τῶν μέτρων ἰαμβεῖα φθέγγονται λέγοντεσ, δεῖ δὲ σεμνότητα γενέσθαι καὶ ἐκστῆσαι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 4:1)
