Archilochian

American  

[ahr-kuh-loh-kee-uhn] / ˌɑr kəˈloʊ ki ən /

adjective

Prosody.

1. of or relating to a form of poetic meter devised by the Greek Archilochus in which various types of meter are combined in the same line or couplet, as a dactylic tetrameter plus a trochaic tripody.

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Archilochian British  

/ ˌɑːkɪˈləʊkɪən /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to the 7th century _bc Greek poet Archilochus or his verse, esp the iambic trimeters or trochaic tetrameters used by him

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Etymology

Origin of Archilochian

1745–55; < Greek archilóchei ( os ) (equivalent to Archíloch ( os ) Archilochus + -eios adj. suffix) + -an

Example Sentences

The First Archilochian, "Diffugere nives," I have represented by a combination of the ten-syllable with the four- syllable iambic.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Conington, John

I have also ventured to invent a metre for that technically known as the Fourth Archilochian, the "Solvitur acris hiems," by combining the fourteen-syllable with the ten-syllable iambic in an alternately rhyming stanza.

From The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Conington, John