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Alcaic

Meaning of "Alcaic" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ALCAIC

From Late Latin Alcaicus of Alcaeus.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ALCAIC

ælˈkeɪɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALCAIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alcaic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALCAIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Alcaic stanza

The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC. The Alcaic stanza and the Sapphic stanza named for Alcaeus' contemporary, Sappho, are two important forms of Classical poetry.

Definition of Alcaic in the English dictionary

The definition of Alcaic in the dictionary is of or relating to a metre used by the 7th-century bc Greek lyric poet Alcaeus, consisting of a strophe of four lines each with four feet. Other definition of Alcaic is verse written in the Alcaic form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALCAIC

algebraic · allogeneic · Altaic · apotropaic · Aramaic · archaic · deltaic · formulaic · Hebraic · Judaic · laic · maleic · mosaic · photomosaic · photovoltaic · prosaic · Ptolemaic · trochaic · voltaic · xenogeneic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALCAIC

Albuquerque · alburnous · alburnum · Albury-Wodonga · albuterol · alcade · Alcaeus · alcahest · alcaiceria · Alcaics · alcaide · alcalde · Alcan Highway · alcarraza · alcatras · Alcatraz · alcayde · alcazar · Alcazar de San Juan · Alcestis

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALCAIC

Biblical Aramaic · Chaldaic · choleraic · craic · Cyrenaic · dispondaic · Eddaic · faradaic · mesaraic · Mishnaic · Mithraic · paradisaic · premosaic · Romaic · saic · Sinaic · spondaic · stanzaic · stenopaic · Ural-Altaic

Synonyms and antonyms of Alcaic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Alcaic
1,325 millions of speakers
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
180 millions of speakers
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
14 millions of speakers
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Alcaic
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Alcaic
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALCAIC»

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Remarks on the Latin Alcaic and Sapphic metre, as exhibited ...
As in the Alcaic Horace has used the form— Insolitos docnere nisus, oftener than ' Consiliis juvenis revictse, and probably be thought it more dignified. For the ear is not allowed to pause' upon the seventh syllable, as it is in the other line : so ...
Horace, 1824
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Eranus, a Collection of Exercises in the Alcaic and Sapphic ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Francis Warre Cornish, 2012
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A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
The Alcaic meter is named for the Greek poet Alcaeus, who is traditionally credited with its invention. It is Horace's favorite lyric meter (used in thirty-seven odes) but is used only once by Statius. Accordingly, the guidelines and exercises that ...
David J. Califf, 2002
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Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900: Festschrift ...
4 where the alcaic decasyllabic (-ww-ww-|w-w) occurs in even lines. Lupus correctly identified the phalaecian hendecasyllabic as the metre of the odd lines but mistook the alcaic form for the dactilicum archilochium (tetrameter catalectic).
Ludwig Bieler, John Joseph O'Meara, Bernd Naumann, 1976
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An elementary manual of Latin prosody
This forms the first two lines of the Alcaic Stanza.1 Having now described the Alcaic Hendecasyllabic; Alcaic Decasyllabic (page 125); and Alcaic Enneasyllabic (page 120), we now proceed to discuss the Alcaic Stanza, which is formed by ...
William Wardlaw Ramsay, 1859
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An Elementary Treatise on Latin Prosody, ... with rules for ...
This forms the two first lines of the Alcaic Stanza.' Alcaic Enneasyllabic. See Iambic Trimeter Hypercatalectic. Having now described the Alcaic Hendecasyllabic, Decasyllabic, (page 217,) and Enneasyllabic, we now proceed to discuss the ...
William RAMSAY (M.A., of Glasgow.), 1837
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The first two lines, the hendecasyllables, are known as greater alcaics, the decasyllable (fourth line) as a lesser alcaic. Horace, who used this strophe more than any other in his Odes (37 times), seems to have regarded it as a four-line stanza, ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
The first two lines, the hendecasyllables, are known as greater alcaics, the decasyllable (fourth line) as a lesser alcaic. Horace, who used this strophe more than any other in his Odes (37 times), seems to have regarded it as a four-line stanza, ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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A synopsis of Latin Grammar (upon the plan of Ruddiman).
'SCAZON, on CHOLIAMBIC. ' The Scazon or Choliambic, difiers from the Iambic Trimeter Acalectic only, that it has an Iambus in the. fifth place, and a Spondee in the sixth; as, l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cir In I the; I trim cm» I sé'vé I'rE ye' I nisti. I ALCAIC.
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Transactions of the Philological Society
It is apparent, without further explanation, that the elements of the third and fourth lines of the Alcaic stanza are the same as we have had to treat before. In the fourth line they take the logacedic form, in which the dactylic series has no catalectic ...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1854

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALCAIC»

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Review: 'What WH Auden Can Do for You,' by Alexander McCall Smith
He wrote his elegy in Alcaic quatrains, after Greek and Latin models. This book doesn't even print these quatrains as they are supposed to ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 13»
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London 2012: Olympic ode recited by Boris Johnson
He said he wrote the ode in the style of classical poet Pindar, using what is called alcaic metre. "Writing an ode for the Games revives a musical ... «BBC News, Jul 12»
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Vivat Latinitas! On my summer vacation, I spoke a dead language.
Other exercises were more modern: using hip-hop beats to memorize Alcaic meter, say. Advertisement. The class comprised undergraduate ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 11»
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