anacreontic
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English
Etymology
From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.
Pronunciation
Adjective
anacreontic (comparative more anacreontic, superlative most anacreontic)
- (prosody) Pertaining to the style of the Greek poet Anacreon, who wrote of wine and love; (specifically) designating a metre based on an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
- Characterised by festivity and the celebration of love and/or drinking; bacchanalian, amorous.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter X, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:
- [T]he false Thecla […] had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
Derived terms
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Derived terms
Translations
pertaining to the Greek poet Anacreon
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Noun
anacreontic (plural anacreontics)
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French anacréontique.
Adjective
anacreontic m or n (feminine singular anacreontică, masculine plural anacreontici, feminine and neuter plural anacreontice)
Declension
Declension of anacreontic
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | anacreontic | anacreontică | anacreontici | anacreontice | ||
| definite | anacreonticul | anacreontica | anacreonticii | anacreonticele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | anacreontic | anacreontice | anacreontici | anacreontice | ||
| definite | anacreonticului | anacreonticei | anacreonticilor | anacreonticelor | |||