homeromastiges

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑγες (homēromắstīges), from Ὁμηρομᾰ́στῑξ (Homēromắstīx, Ὅμηρος (Hómēros, “Homer”) +‎ μᾰ́στῑξ (mắstīx, “scourge”), literally “Homer's scourge”, whence Latin Homēromastīx), an epithet given to Zoilus, a Thracian grammarian who was a censorious critic of Homer. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔ.meː.rɔ.masˈtiː.ɡɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.me.ro.masˈtiː.d͡ʒes] === Noun === homēromastīges m pl or f pl (genitive homēromastīgum); third declension (in the plural, metonymic, literary) censorious critics ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), plural only. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “Hŏmērŏmastix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Hŏmērŏmastīx”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.