hexameterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +‎ meter.

発音

• ハイフネーション: he‧xa‧me‧ter

名詞

hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters)

1. (countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet.
   • 1908, Walter Wilson Greg, “[Preface]”, in G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wives Tale, 1595, [Oxford, Oxfordshire]: […] [F]or the Malone Society by Horace Hart […], at the Oxford University Press, published 1965, →OCLC, page vi:

     The date of composition is pretty certainly about 1590, a date suggested by the burlesque hexameters of Huanebango.

2. (uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet.

同意語

• sexameter (rare)

関連する語

• hexametral
• hexametric
• hexametrize

参考

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter

アナグラム

• hexametre

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /hekˈsa.me.ter/, [hɛkˈs̠ämɛt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ekˈsa.me.ter/, [eɡˈzäːmet̪er]

名詞

hexameter m (genitive hexametrī); second declension

1. hexameter

語形変化

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

参照

• “hexameter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hexameter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hexameter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.