"choriambus" meaning in All languages combined

See choriambus on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: choriambuses [plural], choriambi [plural]
Etymology: Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|choriambus}} Latin choriambus, {{uder|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{compound|en|choreus|iambus}} choreus + iambus Head templates: {{en-noun|+|choriambi}} choriambus (plural choriambuses or choriambi)
  1. (poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus. Categories (topical): Poetry Synonyms: choriamb Derived forms: choriambic

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for choriambus meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "choriambus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin choriambus",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "choreus",
        "3": "iambus"
      },
      "expansion": "choreus + iambus",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "choriambuses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choriambi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "+",
        "2": "choriambi"
      },
      "expansion": "choriambus (plural choriambuses or choriambi)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poetry",
          "orig": "en:Poetry",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Literature",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "choriambic"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus."
      ],
      "id": "en-choriambus-en-noun-NB-Zxq~i",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetry",
          "poetry"
        ],
        [
          "metrical foot",
          "metrical foot"
        ],
        [
          "syllable",
          "syllable"
        ],
        [
          "choreus",
          "choreus"
        ],
        [
          "trochee",
          "trochee"
        ],
        [
          "iambus",
          "iambus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "choriamb"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "poetry",
        "publishing",
        "writing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choriambus"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "choriambic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "choriambus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin choriambus",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "choreus",
        "3": "iambus"
      },
      "expansion": "choreus + iambus",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "choriambuses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "choriambi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "+",
        "2": "choriambi"
      },
      "expansion": "choriambus (plural choriambuses or choriambi)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "en:Poetry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetry",
          "poetry"
        ],
        [
          "metrical foot",
          "metrical foot"
        ],
        [
          "syllable",
          "syllable"
        ],
        [
          "choreus",
          "choreus"
        ],
        [
          "trochee",
          "trochee"
        ],
        [
          "iambus",
          "iambus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "choriamb"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "poetry",
        "publishing",
        "writing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "choriambus"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.