hexameter

• hexametre

From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +‎ meter. Piecewise doublet of sexameter.

• Hyphenation: he‧xa‧me‧ter

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.

• sexameter (rare)

• hexametral
• hexametric
• hexametrize

• (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter ^{(Category: en:Prosody)}

• hexametre

Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros).

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛkˈsaː.meː.tər/, /ɦɛkˈsaː.meː.tɛr/

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• Hyphenation: he‧xa‧me‧ter

hexameter m (plural hexameters, no diminutive)

1. hexameter

   Wie ook deze discours snapt, zal weten dat mij slechts dactylisch hexameter vertrouwd is en niets anders, geef me toch vrijheid!

   Who also understands this exposition, will know that only dactylic hexameter is familiar to me and nothing else, give me liberty!

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɛkˈsa.mɛ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡˈzaː.me.ter]

hexameter m (genitive hexametrī); second declension

1. hexameter

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

• “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.