"ἑξάμετρος" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [Ancient Greek]

IPA: /hek.sá.me.tros/, /ekˈsa.me.tros/, /ekˈsa.me.tros/, /hek.sá.me.tros/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /(h)ekˈsa.me.tros/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ekˈsa.me.tros/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ekˈsa.me.tros/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ekˈsa.me.tros/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ἑξᾰ- (hexa-, “six”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter”) + -ος (-os). Etymology templates: {{affix|grc|ἑξᾰ-|μέτρον|-ος|t1=six|t2=meter}} ἑξᾰ- (hexa-, “six”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter”) + -ος (-os) Inflection templates: {{grc-adecl|ἑξᾰ́μετρος|ἑξᾰ́μετρον}} Forms: ἑξᾰ́μετρος [canonical], hexámetros [romanization], ἑξᾰ́μετρον [neuter], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ἑξᾰ́μετρος [feminine, masculine, nominative, singular], ἑξᾰ́μετρον [neuter, nominative, singular], ἑξᾰμέτρω [dual, feminine, masculine, nominative], ἑξᾰμέτρω [dual, neuter, nominative], ἑξᾰ́μετροι [feminine, masculine, nominative, plural], ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ [neuter, nominative, plural], ἑξᾰμέτρου [feminine, genitive, masculine, singular], ἑξᾰμέτρου [genitive, neuter, singular], ἑξᾰμέτροιν [dual, feminine, genitive, masculine], ἑξᾰμέτροιν [dual, genitive, neuter], ἑξᾰμέτρων [feminine, genitive, masculine, plural], ἑξᾰμέτρων [genitive, neuter, plural], ἑξᾰμέτρῳ [dative, feminine, masculine, singular], ἑξᾰμέτρῳ [dative, neuter, singular], ἑξᾰμέτροιν [dative, dual, feminine, masculine], ἑξᾰμέτροιν [dative, dual, neuter], ἑξᾰμέτροις [dative, feminine, masculine, plural], ἑξᾰμέτροις [dative, neuter, plural], ἑξᾰ́μετρον [accusative, feminine, masculine, singular], ἑξᾰ́μετρον [accusative, neuter, singular], ἑξᾰμέτρω [accusative, dual, feminine, masculine], ἑξᾰμέτρω [accusative, dual, neuter], ἑξᾰμέτρους [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ [accusative, neuter, plural], ἑξᾰ́μετρε [feminine, masculine, singular, vocative], ἑξᾰ́μετρον [neuter, singular, vocative], ἑξᾰμέτρω [dual, feminine, masculine, vocative], ἑξᾰμέτρω [dual, neuter, vocative], ἑξᾰ́μετροι [feminine, masculine, plural, vocative], ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ [neuter, plural, vocative], ἑξᾰμέτρως [adverbial, feminine, masculine, neuter], ἑξᾰμετρότερος [comparative, feminine, masculine, neuter], ἑξᾰμετρότᾰτος [feminine, masculine, neuter, superlative]
  1. Expressed in dactylic hexameter and the Epic dialect: hexametric Tags: Attic, Ionic, Koine Derived forms: ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ (hexámetra)
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        "4": "-ος",
        "t1": "six",
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      },
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      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ἑξᾰ- (hexa-, “six”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter”) + -ος (-os).",
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        "plural"
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      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρε",
      "roman": "hexámetre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
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        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρως",
      "roman": "hexamétrōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμετρότερος",
      "roman": "hexametróteros",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμετρότᾰτος",
      "roman": "hexametrótatos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "ἑξᾰ́μετρος",
        "2": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον"
      },
      "name": "grc-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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          "name": "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἑξα-",
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        {
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          "parents": [],
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        {
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        {
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        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "hexámetra",
          "word": "ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[The Pythia] uttered this to them in hexametric verses, and it went as follows:\nYou, inhabitants of spacious Sparta […]",
          "ref": "484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 7 220.3",
          "roman": "humîn d’, ô Spártēs oikḗtores eurukhóroio",
          "text": "ταῦτα δέ σφι ἐν ἔπεσι ἑξαμέτροισι χρᾷ λέγοντα ὧδε.\nὑμῖν δ’, ὦ Σπάρτης οἰκήτορες εὐρυχόροιο\ntaûta dé sphi en épesi hexamétroisi khrâi légonta hôde."
        },
        {
          "english": "I do say that we have very many poets of hexametric and trimetric verse and of all meters that are spoken of […]",
          "ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 810d",
          "roman": "légō mḕn hóti poiētaí te hēmîn eisín tines epôn hexamétrōn pámpolloi kaì trimétrōn kaì pántōn dḕ tôn legoménōn métrōn",
          "text": "λέγω μὴν ὅτι ποιηταί τε ἡμῖν εἰσίν τινες ἐπῶν ἑξαμέτρων πάμπολλοι καὶ τριμέτρων καὶ πάντων δὴ τῶν λεγομένων μέτρων"
        },
        {
          "text": "350 BCE – 280 BCE, Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 1"
        }
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        "Expressed in dactylic hexameter and the Epic dialect: hexametric"
      ],
      "id": "en-ἑξάμετρος-grc-adj-017AM8P5",
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          "dactylic"
        ],
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          "hexameter"
        ],
        [
          "Epic dialect",
          "Epic Greek"
        ],
        [
          "hexametric",
          "hexametric"
        ]
      ],
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        "Ionic",
        "Koine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/hek.sá.me.tros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hek.sá.me.tros/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(h)ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἑξάμετρος"
}
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    }
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    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον",
      "roman": "hexámetron",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον",
      "roman": "hexámetron",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρω",
      "roman": "hexamétrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρω",
      "roman": "hexamétrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρους",
      "roman": "hexamétrous",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ",
      "roman": "hexámetra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρε",
      "roman": "hexámetre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον",
      "roman": "hexámetron",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρω",
      "roman": "hexamétrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρω",
      "roman": "hexamétrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "neuter",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετροι",
      "roman": "hexámetroi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰ́μετρᾰ",
      "roman": "hexámetra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμέτρως",
      "roman": "hexamétrōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμετρότερος",
      "roman": "hexametróteros",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἑξᾰμετρότᾰτος",
      "roman": "hexametrótatos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ἑξᾰ́μετρος",
        "2": "ἑξᾰ́μετρον"
      },
      "name": "grc-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek 4-syllable words",
        "Ancient Greek adjectives",
        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ancient Greek lemmas",
        "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
        "Ancient Greek terms prefixed with ἑξα-",
        "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ος",
        "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations",
        "Attic Greek",
        "Ionic Greek",
        "Koine Greek",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[The Pythia] uttered this to them in hexametric verses, and it went as follows:\nYou, inhabitants of spacious Sparta […]",
          "ref": "484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 7 220.3",
          "roman": "humîn d’, ô Spártēs oikḗtores eurukhóroio",
          "text": "ταῦτα δέ σφι ἐν ἔπεσι ἑξαμέτροισι χρᾷ λέγοντα ὧδε.\nὑμῖν δ’, ὦ Σπάρτης οἰκήτορες εὐρυχόροιο\ntaûta dé sphi en épesi hexamétroisi khrâi légonta hôde."
        },
        {
          "english": "I do say that we have very many poets of hexametric and trimetric verse and of all meters that are spoken of […]",
          "ref": "428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 810d",
          "roman": "légō mḕn hóti poiētaí te hēmîn eisín tines epôn hexamétrōn pámpolloi kaì trimétrōn kaì pántōn dḕ tôn legoménōn métrōn",
          "text": "λέγω μὴν ὅτι ποιηταί τε ἡμῖν εἰσίν τινες ἐπῶν ἑξαμέτρων πάμπολλοι καὶ τριμέτρων καὶ πάντων δὴ τῶν λεγομένων μέτρων"
        },
        {
          "text": "350 BCE – 280 BCE, Demetrius of Phalerum, On Style 1"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressed in dactylic hexameter and the Epic dialect: hexametric"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dactylic",
          "dactylic"
        ],
        [
          "hexameter",
          "hexameter"
        ],
        [
          "Epic dialect",
          "Epic Greek"
        ],
        [
          "hexametric",
          "hexametric"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Attic",
        "Ionic",
        "Koine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/hek.sá.me.tros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hek.sá.me.tros/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/(h)ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ekˈsa.me.tros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἑξάμετρος"
}

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  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Ancient Greek",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "ἑξάμετρος",
  "trace": ""
}

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