hipponactean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating to or characteristic of the Ancient Greek poet Hipponax; (specifically) using choliambic verse.
noun
A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.
Example Sentences
- "The lines are vigorous and full of anger, and they be betray none of the usual Hipponactean buffoonery (unless the reference to 'eating slavish bread' echoes some previous abuse on the score of gluttony)."
- "We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]"
Etymology
From Latin Hipponax + -ean.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: la:Hipponax