hexameter

== English == === Alternative forms === hexametre === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). Equivalent to hexa- +‎ meter. Piecewise doublet of sexameter. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: he‧xa‧me‧ter === Noun === hexameter (countable and uncountable, plural hexameters) (countable) A line in a poem having six metrical feet. (uncountable) A poetic metre in which each line has six feet. ==== Synonyms ==== sexameter (rare) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== hexametral hexametric hexametrize ==== Translations ==== === See also === (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody) === Anagrams === hexametre == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin hexameter, from Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɦɛkˈsaː.meː.tər/, /ɦɛkˈsaː.meː.tɛr/ Hyphenation: he‧xa‧me‧ter === Noun === hexameter m (plural hexameters, no diminutive) hexameter == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἑξάμετρος (hexámetros). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɛkˈsa.mɛ.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eɡˈzaː.me.ter] === Noun === hexameter m (genitive hexametrī); second declension hexameter ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). === References === “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.