Archilochian

[ahr-kuh-loh-kee-uh n]

adjective Prosody.

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.

Origin of Archilochian

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

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British Dictionary definitions for archilochian

Archilochian

adjective

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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