πυρρίχιος

English (LSJ)

ὁ,
A of or belonging to the πυρρίχη, πυρρίχιος [εἶδος], ὄρχησις, the Pyrrhic dance, Luc.Salt.9, Hld.3.10; πυρρίχιος δρόμος Hdn.4.2.9.
II in Metric, ποὺς πυρρίχιος a pyrrhic, i.e. a foot consisting of two short syllables, used in the πυρρίχη, Longin.41.1, Heph.3.1, Aristid.Quint.1.15.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ος, ον :
qui concerne la danse pyrrhique.
Étymologie: πυρρίχη.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

πυρρίχιος -ον [πυρρίχη] pyrrhichisch.

German (Pape)

ον, die πυρρίχη betreffend; δρόμος, Hdn. 4.2.19; gew. πούς, ein aus zwei kurzen Silben bestehender Versfuß, weil er in der πυρρίχη häufig vorkam, Luc. salt. 9. Er hieß auch παρίαμβος.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

πυρρίχιος: (ῐχ) пиррихийский (ὄρχημα Luc.): π. πούς стих. пиррихийская или пиррихиева стопа, пиррихий (∪∪).
II ὁ (sc. πούς) пиррихий (стопа ∪∪).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

πυρρίχιος: [ῐ], ὁ, ὁ ἀνήκων ἢ ἁρμόζων εἰς τὴν πυρρίχην, π. ὄρχημα, ὄρχησις, Λουκ. π. Ὀρχ. 9, Ἡλιόδ. 3. 10· π. δρόμος Ἡρῳδιαν. 4. 2, 9. ΙΙ. ποὺς π., ποὺς συγκείμενος ἐκ δύο συλλαβῶν βραχειῶν, ἐγένετο δὲ χρῆσις αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ πυρρίχῃ, ἤτοι τῷ πολεμικῷ ᾄσματι, Λογγῖν. 41. 1, Δημήτρ. Φαληρ. κλπ.

Greek Monolingual

-α, -ο / πυρρίχιος, -ον, ΝΑ πυρρίχη
φρ. α) «πυρρίχιος χορός» — πολεμικός χορός κατά την εκτέλεση του οποίου οι χορευτές μιμούνται τις κινήσεις με τα όπλα κατά τη διάρκεια της μάχης και του οποίου ο ρυθμός βασίζεται στον πυρρίχιο πόδα, αλλ. πυρρίχη
β) «πυρρίχιος πους» — μετρικός πους αποτελούμενος από δύο βραχείες συλλαβές.

Greek Monotonic

πυρρίχιος: [ῐ], ὁ,
I. αυτός που προέρχεται ή ανήκει στο χορό της πυρρίχης, σε Λουκ.
II. ποὺς πυρρίχιος, πόδας που αποτελείται από δύο βραχείες συλλαβές και χρησιμ. στην πυρρίχη ή σε πολεμικό άσμα.

Middle Liddell

πυρρῐ́χιος, ὁ,
I. of or belonging to the pyrrhic dance, Luc.
II. ποὺς π. a pyrrhic, i. e. a foot consisting of two short syllables, used in the πυρρίχη or war-song.

Wikipedia EN

The Pyrrhichios or Pyrrhike dance ("Pyrrhic dance"; Ancient Greek: πυρρίχιος or πυρρίχη, but often misspelled as πυρρίχειος or πυρήχειος) was the best known war dance of the Greeks. It was probably of Dorian origin and practiced at first solely as a training for war. According to ancient sources, it was an armed dance.

Plato (Leges, 815a) describes it as imitating by quick movements the ways in which blows and darts are to be avoided and also the modes in which an enemy is to be attacked. It was danced to the sound of the aulos; its time was quick and light, as is also shown by the metric foot called pyrrhic.

It was described by Xenophon in his work the Anabasis. In that work he writes that the dance was performed at a festival held in Trapezus to celebrate the arrival of the troops in the city. The following is the part in which the pyrrhic dance is mentioned:

A Mysian who saw that they were amazed, retorted by persuading one of the Arcadians who had acquired a dancing girl to dress her in the finest costume he could, fit her with a light shield and bring her on to give a graceful performance of the 'Pyrrhic' dance. Thereupon there was a roar of applause, and the Paphlagonians asked if the Greek women also fought side by side with their men. The Greeks answered that these were the very women who had routed the king from his camp. Homer refers to the Pyrrichios and describes how Achilles danced it around the burning funeral of Patroclus.

The dance was loved in all of Greece and especially by the Spartans who considered it light war training. This belief led the Spartans to teach the dance to their children while they were still young.

Athenian youth performed the dance in the palaestra as part of training in gymnastics. The dance was also performed in the Panathenaic Games. There were three classes of competitors: men, youth, and boys.

Mantoulidis Etymological

(ἐνν. χορός) (=εἶδος ἐνόπλιου πολεμικοῦ χοροῦ, ἀπό τόν ἐφευρέτη Πύρριχο).