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τετράμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράμετρος τετράμετρον

Structure: τετραμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. consisting of four metres, consisting of four double feet or syzygies, the trochaic tetrameter

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὴ τῶν ὀνομάτων τούτων μετακινήσασ τὴν σύνθεσιν τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ στίχουσ ἀντὶ μὲν ἑξαμέτρων ποιήσω τετραμέτρουσ, ἀντὶ δὲ ἡρωϊκῶν προσοδιακοὺσ τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 45)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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