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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Like ἴαμβος (íambos), θρίαμβος (thríambos) and ἴθυμβος (íthumbos), this word is probably a loanword from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː.tʰý.ram.bos/ → /ðiˈθy.ram.bos/ → /ðiˈθi.ram.bos/
Noun
δῑθῠ́ρᾰμβος • (dīthúrambos) m (genitive δῑθῠρᾰ́μβου); second declension
- dithyramb, a hymn in honor of Dionysus
- (figuratively) bombastic language
- name for the god Dionysus himself
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Further reading
- “διθύραμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “διθύραμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- διθύραμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- διθύραμβος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN