pherecrateanadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌfɛrᵻkrəˈtiːən/, U.S.

/ˌfɛrəkrəˈtiən/

Forms: 1700s pherecratian Brit.

/ˌfɛrᵻˈkreɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌfɛrəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/, 1800s– pherecratean. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Pherecratius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin Pherecratius, designating a metre used by the poet Pherecrates (4th cent.; < Hellenistic Greek Φερεκράτειος < ancient Greek Φερεκράτης , name of an Athenian comic poet + -ειος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix; in form pherecratean with ending remodelled after -ean suffix. Compare earlier pherecratic adj., pherecratic n.

Classical Prosody.

A. adj.

Designating a logaoedic metre or verse consisting of three feet, normally a spondee, dactyl, and spondee (or trochee), but admitting of some variations.

ΚΠ

1788 J. Lemprière Classical Dict. (1826) 511/1 He [sc. Pherecrates] invented a sort of verse, which from him has been called Pherecratian.

1855 J. Banvard Wisdom, Wit & Whims 232 And I myself have composed an epigram on him in the Pherecratean metre.

1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) §921 Pherecratean verses are sometimes combined in systems: but much more frequent are Glyconic systems closing with a Pherecratean.

1892 Classical Rev. 6 324/1 Similar slips are made in the treatment of the Pherecratean and Glyconic verses, in the Sapphic strophe and elsewhere.

1937 Classical Rev. 51 79/2 In phrases which look pherecratean or dochmiac.

1995 Merriam-Webster's Encycl. Lit. (at cited word) The pherecratean colon takes its name from the Greek comic poet Pherecrates.

B. n.

A Pherecratean metre or verse.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > trimeter > Pherecratic

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1844 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 91/2 The Glyconic and Pherecratean alternated, compose the Priapean,..of which we next have an illustration.

1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) §921 Much more frequent are Glyconic systems closing with a Pherecratean.

1895 Classical Rev. 9 305/1 In the forty or fifty pherecrateans of this poem we find the spondee only once.

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 47 377 The glyconic is always of the same nature, as opposed to the pherecratean, which was first a catalectic glyconic, and then was changed to a triple measure.

1979 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 107 For the last two lines, he switches to the bacchic half of the first pherecratean, whose form is ¯ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘ ¯ ¯.

1994 Classical Q. New Ser. 44 541 The rare but paralleled stichic use of pherecrateans may have induced him to perpetuate the same metre in the other lines of the poem.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pherecratean
释义	pherecrateanadj.n. Brit. /ˌfɛrᵻkrəˈtiːən/, U.S. /ˌfɛrəkrəˈtiən/ Forms: 1700s pherecratian Brit. /ˌfɛrᵻˈkreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌfɛrəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/, 1800s– pherecratean. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Pherecratius , -an suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin Pherecratius, designating a metre used by the poet Pherecrates (4th cent.; < Hellenistic Greek Φερεκράτειος < ancient Greek Φερεκράτης , name of an Athenian comic poet + -ειος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix; in form pherecratean with ending remodelled after -ean suffix. Compare earlier pherecratic adj., pherecratic n. Classical Prosody. A. adj. Designating a logaoedic metre or verse consisting of three feet, normally a spondee, dactyl, and spondee (or trochee), but admitting of some variations. ΚΠ 1788 J. Lemprière Classical Dict. (1826) 511/1 He [sc. Pherecrates] invented a sort of verse, which from him has been called Pherecratian. 1855 J. Banvard Wisdom, Wit & Whims 232 And I myself have composed an epigram on him in the Pherecratean metre. 1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) §921 Pherecratean verses are sometimes combined in systems: but much more frequent are Glyconic systems closing with a Pherecratean. 1892 Classical Rev. 6 324/1 Similar slips are made in the treatment of the Pherecratean and Glyconic verses, in the Sapphic strophe and elsewhere. 1937 Classical Rev. 51 79/2 In phrases which look pherecratean or dochmiac. 1995 Merriam-Webster's Encycl. Lit. (at cited word) The pherecratean colon takes its name from the Greek comic poet Pherecrates. B. n. A Pherecratean metre or verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > trimeter > Pherecratic pherecratic1742 pherecratean1844 1844 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 91/2 The Glyconic and Pherecratean alternated, compose the Priapean,..of which we next have an illustration. 1861 J. Hadley Greek Gram. (new ed.) §921 Much more frequent are Glyconic systems closing with a Pherecratean. 1895 Classical Rev. 9 305/1 In the forty or fifty pherecrateans of this poem we find the spondee only once. 1926 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 47 377 The glyconic is always of the same nature, as opposed to the pherecratean, which was first a catalectic glyconic, and then was changed to a triple measure. 1979 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 107 For the last two lines, he switches to the bacchic half of the first pherecratean, whose form is ¯ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ \| ˘ ¯ ¯. 1994 Classical Q. New Ser. 44 541 The rare but paralleled stichic use of pherecrateans may have induced him to perpetuate the same metre in the other lines of the poem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1788
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