ARCHILOCHIAN


Meaning of ARCHILOCHIAN in English

/ahr'keuh loh"kee euhn/ , adj. Pros.

of or pertaining 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.

[ 1745-55; archilóchei ( os ) (equiv. to Archíloch ( os ) ARCHILOCHUS + -eios adj. suffix) + -AN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .