fidicen

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Latin

Etymology

fidēs (“lyre”) +‎ -cen (“player ”)

Pronunciation

Noun

fidicen m (genitive fidicinis, feminine fidicina); third declension

  1. a lutist, lyrist, harpist
  2. (transferred sense, poetic) a lyric poet, a lyricist
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.16.27-28:
      ...; et unā / Pindaricae fidicen tu quoque, Rufe, lyrae;
      ...together with you too, Rufus, lyricist of Pindar's lyre

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fidicen fidicinēs
Genitive fidicinis fidicinum
Dative fidicinī fidicinibus
Accusative fidicinem fidicinēs
Ablative fidicine fidicinibus
Vocative fidicen fidicinēs

Derived terms

References

  • “fĭdĭcen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fidicen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fĭdĭcen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 666/1.
  • “fidicen” on page 698/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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