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Latin
Etymology
From tri- (“three”) + brevis (“short”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tribrevis m (genitive tribrevis); third declension
- (prosody) tribrach (metrical foot comprising three short syllables)
- AD 4th C., Diomedes Grammaticus (author), Heinrich Keil (editor), Artis Grammaticae Liber III (1857), page 479:
- Tribrachys, tribrevis, teuthasius, quem quīdam brachysyllabum, aliī triorcheon, nōnnūllī pygmōna, plērīque chorīum nuncupant.
- The tribrach, "tribreve", teuthasius, which some call "brachysyllabic" , others triorcheon, some pygmon, many chorium.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
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References
- “trĭbrĕvis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- trĭbrĕvis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,598/3.