hexameter

Latin > English

hexameter hexametra, hexametrum ADJ :: hexameter; with six metrical feet; (of verse)
hexameter hexameter hexametri N M :: hexameter line; verse in hexameter

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

hexămĕter: (hexămetrus, Ter. Maur. p. 2430 P.), tri, m., = ἑξάμετρος (of six measures), with or without versus,
I a verse consisting of six feet, a hexameter: versus, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. Hor. S. 1, 5, 87; so, metrum, Isid. 1, 38, 6: Antipater ille Sidonius solitus est versus hexametros aliosque variis modis atque numeris fundere ex tempore, Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 194: hexametrorum instar versuum, id. Or. 66, 222: liber scriptus ab eo hexametris versibus, Suet. Aug. 85: in longis versibus qui hexametri dicuntur, Gell. 18, 15, 1 (cf. Enn. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68): initium hexametri, Quint. 9, 4, 78; cf. § 74: finis hexametri, id. 9, 4, 75; Ter. Maur. p. 2441: iambicus, whose sixth foot is an iambus, Diom. p. 516 P.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

hexămĕtĕr¹⁶ (-metrus, Ter. Maur. 2103 ), trī, m. (ἑξάμετρος), qui a six pieds, hexamètre : hexametri versus Cic. de Or. 3, 194, vers hexamètres || [sans versus ] Quint. 9, 4, 78, etc. || iambicus Diom. 517, 13 sénaire iambique, c. senarius.

Latin > German (Georges)

hexameter, tra, trum (εξάμετρος, sechsmaßig), sechsfüßig (als t. t. der Metrik), metrum, Isid. orig. 1, 38, 6. – bes. hex. versus od. versus hex., Lucil., Cic. u.a.: ders. subst. bl. hexameter, trī, m., der sechsfüßige Vers, der Hexameter, Quint. u. spät. Gramm.: Nbf. hexametrus, ī, m., Ter. Maur. v. 2105. Victorin. de metr. 209, 7 K.

Latin > Chinese

hexameter vel hexametrus, i. m. :: 六度者。Versus hexameter 六度之行詩。