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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μονόχορδος (monókhordos).
Pronunciation
Adjective
monochordos (neuter monochordon); second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type)
- with or of one string
1904, “'De arte poetica liber”, in Pseudoacronis scholia in Horatium vetustiora recensvit Otto Keller. Vol. II: Schol. in sermones epistulas artemque poeticam, Leipzig, §216, page 344f.:Cithara monochordos fuit, deinde paulatim dextra leuaque addentes ... ponebant tragoediis satyrica dramata, in quibus salua maiestate grauitatis iocos exercebant seeundum Cratini institutionem. Is enim primus Athenis, Dionisia dum essent, satyricam fabulam induxit; alia autem satyra est illa mordax, ut Lucilii, Horatii, Persii, Iuuenalis. Hae autem fabulae satyricae dicuntur, ut tragicae et comicae (Γ΄ f V cζ- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension adjective (feminine forms identical to masculine forms, Greek-type).
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