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τρίμετρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίμετρος τρίμετρον

Structure: τριμετρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/tron

Sense

  1. consisting of three metres;, of three syzygies, of three metres or six feet, versus senarius, trimeter

Examples

  • ἐπὶ ἑξαμέτρῳ πεντάμετρον καὶ δύο τρίμετροι, εἶτα ἑξάμετρον Ἀργεῖοσ Δάνδησ σταδιοδρόμοσ ἐνθάδε κεῖται, νίκαισ ἱππόβοτον πατρίδ’ ἐπευκλεΐσασ, Ὀλυμπίᾳ δίσ, ἐν δὲ Πυθῶνι τρία, δύω δ’ ἐν Ἰσθμῷ, πεντεκαίδεκ’ ἐν Νεμέᾳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 141)

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

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