paroemiac
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek παροιμιακόν (paroimiakón, noun) and παροιμιακός (paroimiakós, adjective),[1] from παροιμία (paroimía, “proverb”).
Noun
paroemiac (countable and uncountable, plural paroemiacs)
- A catalectic anapestic dimeter.
- 1894, Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments - Volume 6, page 20:
- Two successive paroemiacs were admissible only in anapaests of this 'free' or lyric character (n. on 86—120). These paroemiacs are purely spondaic; as 'free' anapaests also admitted the converse license, of resolving the long syllables, except the last, of the paroemiac.
- 1896, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology - Volume 7, page 142:
- The metrical differences between march and melic anapaests are differences in respect of feet, caesura, continuity, use of the paroemiac, and catalexis.
- 2007, Mark Griffith, The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound, →ISBN, page 72:
- It might be objected that the ratio depends on the exigencies of the drama, that e.g. short anapaestic passages of only half-a-dozen or so metra plus their paroemiac might be required in some plays, not in others, and thus lower the ratio for those plays.
References
- ^ “paroemiac | paremiac, n. and adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-11-02.
