dithyrambus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin dīthyrambus, from Ancient Greek διθύραμβος (dithúrambos). === Noun === dithyrambus (plural dithyrambi) Alternative form of dithyramb. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek διθύραμβος (dithúrambos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [diː.tʰyˈram.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [di.tiˈram.bus] === Noun === dīthyrambus m (genitive dīthyrambī); second declension a dithyramb, dithyrambic poem, originally in honor of Bacchus, but afterwards also of other gods ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “dithyrambus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “dithyrambus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers